[Fwd: [Fwd: PSARC 2008/043 Phase 1 of OSS for Solaris]]

[Brian Cameron]

Stephen:

>> However, we do not plan on dropping SADA support for any applications.
>> We would consider dropping SADA support if all our users have migrated
>> to OSS.
> 
> It might take a very long time to migrate all the applications to OSS.

I mean to convert *just* those programs that JDS is responsible for.  If
Sun Ray were to switch to OSS, then the JDS team could migrate all JDS
related programs to OSS.  Then the JDS team would no longer need to support
SADA interfaces.

Other teams might still own programs that depend on SADA, however.  I don't
expect SADA will go away the minute the JDS team stops depending on it.

> I have quite a few SADA based apps I've built over the years, many of which
> I was unable to successfully port to OSS (for Linux)  as the OSS implementations
> were never adaquate.  In addition, the SADA API's use a different architectural
> model, so I would expect either significant porting assistance, or changes to
> the OSS api's to better support applications built using the SADA before it
> is worthwhile to port them.
> 
> I suspect much of the audio related work I do will stop happening on Solaris
> if SADA goes away, and I am left only with OSS.
> 
> Stephen
>> Brian
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