RE: [SLUG] Fw: SDC Bulletin January 27, 2000

[davidf@nospam.magentatech.com.au (Dave Fitch)]

Rowling@nospam.ali.com.au
> Oracle also has a personal version of its product for Linux (Intel platform)
> which they announced at CALU last year.
> It wasn't free (around $800 I think, maybe cheaper) and it didn't have all
> the things listed in the SDC bulletin.

and it's for linux not solaris, the sparc solaris version would be
more than $800 I would've thought.

> The PC card for the Ultra was interesting; again if you have a need to do
> cross platform development it'd be ideal.
> You can get a much better (and faster) PC deal elsewhere, though.

of course but if you're buying an ultra5, it's "thrown in" at no
extra cost - which is nice (especially if your work is buying it).

It would also be good for people in a company where other people
use the M$ stuff - run lose95 (eg) on the SunPCI card for M$word
etc for your emailed word files and so on, then solaris for the real
stuff (it supports drag and drop between OSs - actually looks pretty
cool, I'll have to convince them I need one here).

> The specs for the combo are only "moderate" and it's IDE, not SCSI.
> See http://www.sun.com.au/products/hardware/desktop.html

yep - but of course ultra5's are only IDE too!
Anyway it supports an emulated disk - ie. managed through solaris
files (under the M$ stuff and OpenDOS (which it ships with)).

Dave.
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