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This is a skeletal project plan that has NOT YET been reviewed or approved for action. |
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- Student use of Suns in Athena Clusters (small.)
- Faculty who don't want to give up their Suns.
- Classes teaching with Sun-Unique courseware.
- General use Solaris-only software:
- ArcInfo: (geographic information system) – now available in the Win.MIT.edu clusters.
- FrameMaker – This will no longer be available. Migrate documents to OpenOffice and Microsoft Office.
- Acrobat distiller – This will no longer be available. Use word processor's built-in PDF output configuration..
Solaris EOL Customer Options:
- Switch to Linux Athena hardware.
- Migrate to work-alike software.
- Go it alone and work directly with Sun for support
- Faculty who don't want to give up their Suns.
- Classes teaching with Sun-Unique courseware.
Plan of action:
- Create Desktop Athena Solaris EOL Details web site with Timeline, Rationale and What to do.
- Meet with OEIT or ACCORD to announce this is coming and get them ready.
- Send out an announcement with summary Rationale, July 1 date, and summary activities: Migrate migrate migrate, and a pointer to the web site.
- Establish MOTD messages to warn customers of Software/Hardware End of Life.
- Display signs on machines in clusters warning of Software/Hardware End of Life.
- Obtain list of faculty with Suns on their desks, and get Hotline to begin migrating them ASAP. Let them forward problem customers to appropriate folks internally: wdsouza, alexp, wdc, amb.
- Utilize mailing lists and beginning-of-term coordinated events to contact TAs and identify as many at-risk courses and course lockers as we can.
- Make a list of the courses with Solaris-only exposure, and identify what to do.
- Create a solaris-sunset email list with members: othomas, wdc, jdreed, jmhunt, gettes, bowser and an OEIT representative to receive calls for help.
- Quietly keep the 8 Solaris systems in 38-332 through the Fall term for classes that fall through the cracks.