The important thing to consider is, is your customer running in-house
applications or off the shelf applications??
For in-house applications, usually some porting is required, and most
applications are not sensitive to endianness. Data written to disk by
the in-house apps can be an issue as the format might not be endian
neutral.
And for off the shelf stuff, some ISVs do not have the applications
available on x86 (wait... should be x64 now!), but there are emulators
to run SPARC binaries on x64/x64 machines (Transitive comes to mind,
but was bought by IBM).
Other than the availability of applications being the main concern, I
think from the sysadmin point of view, over 95% of the commands and
admin interfaces are the same on both platforms.
But of course, if you google "Solaris Sparc to Solaris X86", you will
find a lot more info:
Eg: Porting:
http://developer.amd.com/documentation/articles/pages/5312007170.aspx
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01936557/c01936557.pdf
Rayson
Post by anisWhat kind of difference between these two platforms ?
What should he expect ?
and any other information
Thanks a lot
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