The scsigen log: Making wishes come true.
Earlier today I came across a blog entry from an employee of Sun Microsystems. He addressed the frustrations of the many worldwide when it came to running much needed applications that were built only for a Microsoft Windows environment. As some of you may already know, the reality is that not everyone runs Microsoft Windows as their operating system and in other cases, some of those same people may have a dual boot set up but rarely if ever boot up into the Windows partition unless it is absolutely necessary.
The author spoke specifically about a topic I too had many problems with and it related to protocol analyzers. Working in the storage industry, a SCSI, Fibre Channel or SAS analyzer is a must have tool. The problem lies with the fact that the providers of such solutions (Lecroy, Finisar, etc.) develop the hardware management and trace viewing interfaces for Windows ONLY! No Mac OS X. No BSD or Linux versions. No Solaris. Why!?! As I had mentioned in numerous earlier posts, IDC reports show that UNIX + Linux combined own more of the enterprise market than Windows. Are these companies just too lazy or do they lack the skill-set to provide something on anything else other than Windows? Do they not see any money in it? If I work for a UNIX only solutions provider, the last thing I would want to do is install a Microsoft Windows console to do any work.
Well, rants like this make me all the more happier in being able to provide the solutions that people like this author are looking for; that is, SCSIGen v2.0, which is still in development and coming to a POSIX compliant platform near you!
