Digital Mars C/C++ Compiler Review

Some peoplein the Linux programming mailing list suggested people to use this Digital Mars C/C++ Compiler to learn C/C++ language. I still maintaining my C/C++ programming skill once a while, but it's been quite long since last time engaged in big project.
You can take a look here: http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
The compiler seems to be free, but you are required to pay when requesting for the CD.

I tried to play around a bit with it, which seems a good for fast up-and-running C/C++ environment. It runs on Win32 and Win16 environment as well. Of course you might need a DOS Extender for Win16 environment in order to be able to use high memory (if you don't understand this, it's ok, just a heritage from the old x86 architecture which we might not be using anymore).

I downloaded the 8.50 version and try to make a working environment out of it.

IBM become Solaris reseller for its x86 product!

IBM has offered Windows based solution, then Linux solution, Novell solution, and now it also offers Solaris solution. This is of course marked the true separation of Sun's hardware business and its Solaris operating system business (now earns mostly from support!), a path that Sun has chosen years ago. Jon Schwartz has stated in his blog that August 16th, 2007 was the milestone for the separation.
Actually Solaris has run on high end hardware other than Sun's, but still in the SPARC architecture circle (such as Fujitsu high end servers).
Now Solaris runs a business model pretty much similar to the RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), competing head-to-head to it, and has the advantage of being positioned as high end operating system lowering down to earth, while RHEL was positioned (at least by community) as hacker operating system trying to go up to become high end platform.
As far as I can remember, Sun also run its StarOffice business under the same business model. So I think this business model is nothing new to Sun.
It will be most likely that other x86 based hardware major vendors (HP/Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, etc) will join the bandwagon, but IBM has had the advantage of being one to catch the first wave. Now users will have other choice instead of using Windows, Linux, and Novell.

Solaris 10 Installation

Today I tried to install Solaris 10 for x86. So far the installer has done an excellent job. The installation is more or less like installing an NT 4.0 box. I've got not much problems encountered.

The installer bundles the JDK 1.5.0_06 inside.