HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compat headed for history
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Sun Jun 27 13:29:40 PDT 2004
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Karl M. Joch wrote:
> I think if one would ask the stable userbase there would be lot of
> different answers. like for me, i tell customers they have a long live,
> very stable OS for their servers where updates are easy and free and
> they can stay always with the latest release. now i got the problem that
> in the first step there was mails around, that the stallion drivers are
> removed from the source tree. so i had to tell a lot of customers they
> have to trash the stallion card they buyed because it was in the
> hardware compatibility list. most was mad, because they have invested
> the hardware after changing their systems from SCO to FreeBSD (we
> replaced a lot of them). Now I have to tell them "Great, you trashed the
> cards (not alot of them have), but you have to stay at 4.x because the
> software (ERP/Financial/Billing) we moved from SCO to FreeBSD with IBCS
> Emulation doesnt work on 5.x".
>
> No, I am not able to maintain the moduls because i am not a good enough
> programmer. If that would be the case i would have adapted the stallion
> stl driver.
>
> Flame me if you like, but from a users/intergrators point of view
> breaking the backward compatibility that way is really worse for the
> public image of the OS. And the answer "you are free to stay with 4.x"
> is not an answer acceptable for customers.
This sounds like a compelling argument for keeping the emulation.
After all it's teh end-user that we have to consider..
> --
> Best regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen,
>
> Karl M. Joch
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