Cease development on SGI’s IRIX

November 5th, 2006 at 23:50 · Filed Under At Work, Business, Days in My Life, Linux, Mac OS X, Software Development, Solaris 

After a 30 minutes discussion with my co-workers, we have unanimously decided to cease all development on SGI’s IRIX. We began developing applications on SGI’s IRIX about 5 years ago because of demands in 3-D graphics visualization. We used Ada to implement our 3-D visualization solutions.

With today’s availability of powerful microprocessor such as AMD and Intel 64-bit processor, SGI’s hardware has become too expensive too invest and maintain. Another reason is the difficulty to find tools such as gnat Ada compiler. The download site usually provides out of date version that makes maintaining the consistency of compiler versions across other platforms difficult.

This decision should have been made long time ago. A lot of time and resources had been wasted in maintaining existing software and development of new applications. Our clients’ decisions to migrate to Opteron and Mac OS X based platforms have also contributed to this decision. We expect zero or next to zero porting problem because we are using portable technologies such as Ada, GTK+, GtkAda and OpenGL. This decision enables our development to focus on both Opteron (Solaris and Linux) and Mac OS X platforms.

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