In article <44c9a68b$0$26357$baae4c71@news.mindlink.net>,
John <sun_powered@cmaaccess.com> wrote:
>Cadence - It's an EDA app (Electronic Design Automation); it's used to

If you would prefer to run Cadence on Solaris, please tell them.

Less important, you can register your interest with Sun.
<URL:http://partneradvantage.sun.com/partners/10moves/request.html>

John
groenveld@acm.org

Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
> John <sun_powered@cmaaccess.com> writes:
>
>> The application is only available for Linux on these x86 servers,
>> otherwise, I would be using Solaris. ;-) Heck, if you look into it,
>> Solaris support on the x86 architecture is abysmal. I wouldn't throw
>> away my Linux at home for OpenSolaris, I'll tell you that.
>
> You haven't look at Solaris in a while or you wouldn't by using
> abysmal...
>
> Casper

Would you choose OpenSolaris, or any Solaris, over Linux on an x86
machine? You might, until you found out how limited your application
choices are for that configuration. For example, go see what version of
Adobe Reader you can get for it. ;-)

I have nothing against Solaris, Casper. It's a lot simpler to work on
than Linux. It's file hierarchy is certainly a lot cleaner and simpler.
Solaris is a great business O/S and Linux is fast-becoming a great
general purpose, jack-of-all-trades/master-of-none O/S, IMHO.

John

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, John wrote:

> Would you choose OpenSolaris, or any Solaris, over Linux on an x86 machine?

I would, any day.

> You might, until you found out how limited your application choices are for
> that configuration. For example, go see what version of Adobe Reader you can
> get for it. ;-)

Yeah, Acrobat reader is a particular thorn in our (Solaris x86 users) side,
but with improvements to open source PDF viewers, Acroread is becoming less
important. I use the old Acrobat 4 here, and it works fine for most things.

--
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

John wrote:
> John D Groenveld wrote:
>> In article <44C96A6F.4060107@cmaaccess.com>,
>> John <sun_powered@cmaaccess.com> wrote:
>>> The application is only available for Linux on these x86 servers,
>>> otherwise, I would be using Solaris. ;-) Heck, if you look into it,
>>
>> What is your application?
>>
>> John
>> groenveld@acm.org
>
> Cadence - It's an EDA app (Electronic Design Automation); it's used to
> design chips and circuits, such as the microprocessors that run our
> computers. Think of it as Autocad for Electrical Engineers, only it does
> much more than just drawings.

Whatever happened with the announcement of Cadence on Solaris X86?

http://192.203.56.67/company/newsroo...xml=010306_sun

Paul

John <sun_powered@cmaaccess.com> writes:

>Would you choose OpenSolaris, or any Solaris, over Linux on an x86
>machine? You might, until you found out how limited your application
>choices are for that configuration. For example, go see what version of
>Adobe Reader you can get for it. ;-)


Bu tthose people who find they wanted to run more than a non-trivial
number of Linux applications also find they need to run about the
same number of *different* Linux versions.

Casper
--
Expressed in this posting are my opinions. They are in no way related
to opinions held by my employer, Sun Microsystems.
Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may
be fiction rather than truth.

In article <seEyg.7870$UY2.6470@fe11.lga>, Paul Gress <pgress@pb.net> wrote:
>Whatever happened with the announcement of Cadence on Solaris X86?

Thank you for jogging my memory.
<URL:http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2006-01/sunflash.20060103.1.xml>
| SANTA CLARA, Calif. & SAN JOSE, Calif.)--Jan. 3, 2006--Sun
| Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW) and Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
| (NASDAQ:CDNS) today announced that Cadence is the first electronic-
| design-automation (EDA) technology vendor to provide broad support
| across its product lines for the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) for
| AMD Opteron and Sun UltraSPARC(R) processor-powered Sun Fire clients
| and servers. In addition, the companies have extended their long
| standing business relationship with the signing of a multi-year
| contract for Cadence products and services, and agreed to develop
| additional solutions that address design challenges at 90 nanometers
| and beyond.

John`
groenveld@acm.org

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, John D Groenveld wrote:

> Thank you for jogging my memory.
> <URL:http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2006-01/sunflash.20060103.1.xml>
> | SANTA CLARA, Calif. & SAN JOSE, Calif.)--Jan. 3, 2006--Sun
> | Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW) and Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
> | (NASDAQ:CDNS) today announced that Cadence is the first electronic-
> | design-automation (EDA) technology vendor to provide broad support
> | across its product lines for the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) for
> | AMD Opteron and Sun UltraSPARC(R) processor-powered Sun Fire clients
> | and servers. In addition, the companies have extended their long
> | standing business relationship with the signing of a multi-year
> | contract for Cadence products and services, and agreed to develop
> | additional solutions that address design challenges at 90 nanometers
> | and beyond.

I guess this means that John (the OP, not John Groenveld!) *can* install
Solaris 10 on his V40z after all...

--
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
> John <sun_powered@cmaaccess.com> writes:
>
>> Would you choose OpenSolaris, or any Solaris, over Linux on an x86
>> machine? You might, until you found out how limited your application
>> choices are for that configuration. For example, go see what version of
>> Adobe Reader you can get for it. ;-)
>
>
> Bu tthose people who find they wanted to run more than a non-trivial
> number of Linux applications also find they need to run about the
> same number of *different* Linux versions.
>
> Casper

If I could run this application on the latest, greatest Solaris 10, I
would! It would sure make my life a lot simpler. But I can't, so yes,
I'm having to run not only a different version, but a different O/S.

If Sun would have stuck to SPARC and not put out this x86 box, we
wouldn't be having this conversation, would we? ;-)

John D Groenveld wrote:
> In article <seEyg.7870$UY2.6470@fe11.lga>, Paul Gress <pgress@pb.net> wrote:
>
>>Whatever happened with the announcement of Cadence on Solaris X86?
>
>
> Thank you for jogging my memory.
> <URL:http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2006-01/sunflash.20060103.1.xml>
> | SANTA CLARA, Calif. & SAN JOSE, Calif.)--Jan. 3, 2006--Sun
> | Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW) and Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
> | (NASDAQ:CDNS) today announced that Cadence is the first electronic-
> | design-automation (EDA) technology vendor to provide broad support
> | across its product lines for the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) for
> | AMD Opteron and Sun UltraSPARC(R) processor-powered Sun Fire clients
> | and servers. In addition, the companies have extended their long
> | standing business relationship with the signing of a multi-year
> | contract for Cadence products and services, and agreed to develop
> | additional solutions that address design challenges at 90 nanometers
> | and beyond.
>
> John`
> groenveld@acm.org

Too bad the announcement is not in sync with available products.

http://www.cadence.com/support/compu..._platform.aspx

But the most important site is their download site. No matter what
anything else says, you can only install what you can download.

http://downloads.cadence.com/

(but you have to be a licensed Cadence user to see what's there)

In article <44CF79EE.7040006@cmaaccess.com>,
John <sun_powered@cmaaccess.com> wrote:
>But the most important site is their download site. No matter what
>anything else says, you can only install what you can download.

What does your Cadence support rep tell you about availability?

John
groenveld@acm.org