I am soon to be ...

[Ric Thornborough]

... an unemployed application programmer after 15 years of continuous work. 
I want to "tech" myself up a bit for a month or two before interviewing. I 
own a very nice Dell desktop at home but it lacks the tools to continue 
doing C/C++ on a Solaris platform. I am thinking of purchasing Sun's Solaris 
9 for Intel. I would then want to download a GNU compiler for my programming 
efforts. Is the GNU compiler compatible with Solaris for Intel? Am I on the 
right track and doing the right thing?

Many thanks,
Ric