No plans to support Wildfire 6.0 on Sun Solaris 10

[lbalthazor-2]

PTC's Platform Support document dated Dec 7, 2009 states, "There are no plans to support Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 6.0 on Solaris 10".

We currently run a mix ofSun Intel Solaris 10 (x86/64)workstations and PCs on Windows. The two platforms give us the flexibility to provide Engineers with the optimum tool to meet the business needs.

Sun Solaris workstations are our preferred platform for large assemblies and complex Mechanica analysis. Pro/E on Sun has proven to be veryfast, stable, and reliableover many years. Our expectations were to run Wildfire 5.0, 6.0, and higher on this platform.

Has anyone heard more from PTC or Sun regarding support of future releases of Wildfire on Solaris 10? I have also heard rumor that Sun no longer plans to sell desktop workstations but I have not been able to validate this.

Lee 

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[pgress]

I too am very interested in this thread. I'm using WF5 on Opensolaris
(X86) and WF4 Solaris 10 (Sparc). I was building a new X86 workstation
to run WF5 also with Opensolaris.

What I hope is that maybe WF6 will be supported on Solaris 11 or
whatever it may be called then.

Sun has stopped selling Sparc based workstations, but the X86 based
workstation don't compare to those based on HP or Supermicro. I have
just recently purchased an HP Z800 workstaion. I haven't heard that Sun
was going to stop producing X86 based workstations.

I too ask if anybody has additional information on this subject.


Paul






Lee Balthazor wrote:
>
> PTC's Platform Support document dated Dec 7, 2009 states, "There are
> no plans to support Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 6.0 on Solaris 10".
>
> We currently run a mix of Sun Intel Solaris 10 (x86/64) workstations
> and PCs on Windows. The two platforms give us the flexibility to
> provide Engineers with the optimum tool to meet the business needs.
>
> Sun Solaris workstations are our preferred platform for large
> assemblies and complex Mechanica analysis. Pro/E on Sun has proven to
> be very fast, stable, and reliable over many years. Our expectations
> were to run Wildfire 5.0, 6.0, and higher on this platform.
>
> Has anyone heard more from PTC or Sun regarding support of future
> releases of Wildfire on Solaris 10? I have also heard rumor that Sun
> no longer plans to sell desktop workstations but I have not been able
> to validate this.

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[smokinjoe]

I too am very disappointed in what PTC is doing with ProE. The lip service is terrible. We never were able to use ProE on Linux because they never made an IntraLINK client. Now they are killing all the UNIX versions. We too are planning on doing 64 bit ProE on OpenSolaris. Windows is getting too slow and troublesome for the issue we are trying to solve. It might be that we will have to migrate to SolidWorks for the Mac since it is 64 bit and is much easier to manage than Windows 7 64 bit.

Thanks,

The Average Joe

[pgress]

I saw the same info. I'm currently running WF5 on Opensolaris. I'm
hoping WF6 will be supported on Solaris 11 or Opensolaris. If not, it
looks like Catia for me, still supported on Solaris.

Paul

[rrich]

Paul you can fight it till the end but sooner or later you will have to
drink the windows koolaid.



Ron

[StephenW]

Windows, oh windows, how I love thee, let me count the ways.