Best environment for development

Hi, my company is migrating their product to SUN solaris. We intend to use several SUN machines as servers and keep working on the much cheaper Windows machine. What is the best way to compile/develop drivers in such environment?? (Any software and compiler name would help,)

It looks like you have no other choice but Forte - gcc cannot build 64-bit SPARC binaries (unless I am out of sync).
You'll need also some X server software for your Windows machines (to turn them into X-terminals), or just VNC (then you'll need really strong Sun server(s) to run X sessions on).
Alternatively, you can dump Windows (replace it by either Linux or FreeBSD, or even Solaris x86). and use native X implementation...
In the latter case you'll be able to run XEmacs on the "terminal" and just build and debug on real Sun's...
Hope this helps,
Ilya.

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