From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 24 17:35:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0080E37B422 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:35:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA22100; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:35:15 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAkHaWWQ; Thu Aug 24 17:34:53 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA27771; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:35:14 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200008250035.RAA27771@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! To: res03db2@gte.net (The Clark Family) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 00:35:14 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org (j mckitrick), chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "The Clark Family" at Aug 22, 2000 01:03:50 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Not all UNIX is open source or GPL. I would expect to find that > fancier debugging tools are available, in commercial toolsets on UNIX. I used to use BattleMap; it's now been renamed since the company was sold, but it's still available. It generate test cases by doing branch path analysis of the code. This meant that the test code had 100% code coverage. 100%. BattleMap cost us $50,000 per workstation back in the early 90's. I have also seen a commercial network management and configuration design tool. That tool cost $250,000 for a 1 year license for one machine. You paid for the graph theory and the patents on the code. So yes, such tools exist. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message