From owner-freebsd-java Tue Mar 23 12:28:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.iwaynet.net (smtp.iwaynet.net [198.30.29.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A9014D44; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:28:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@lojic.com) Received: from daytona (overkill.Progressive-Systems.Com [209.41.220.250]) by smtp.iwaynet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA01385; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:27:09 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990323151435.0153a550@mailbox.iwaynet.net> X-Sender: adkins@mailbox.iwaynet.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:27:39 -0500 To: Brett Glass , Jonathan Lemon , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brian Adkins Subject: Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.32.19990323125147.00a86a80@localhost> References: <199903231936.NAA10667@free.pcs> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:55 PM 3/23/99 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: >How do you market FreeBSD to developers? Give them what developers want: >a stable platform, good development tools, and access to as many users as >possible through a SINGLE API and ABI. > >A FreeBSD emulator, even more so than the Java Virtual Machine (an attempt >to do the same thing but at a higher level), does this. > >--Brett Well, I have to vehemently disagree here. A good Java Virtual Machine will give access to far more users than a FreeBSD emulator for Linux - it's the ultimate emulator. Instead of just possibly encouraging ISV's to target FreeBSD for the native app because they can run on Linux via the emulator, we could attract thousands of ISV's who currently have apps running on dozens of OS's to offer a FreeBSD version and at the same time attract users who prefer FreeBSD over Solaris or Windows NT. I would personally like to get to the point where folks who want Java and a free OS go to FreeBSD *first*. Other commercial OS companies are seriously lacking here, I think SCO only has a 1.1.3 JDK, whereas, FreeBSD already has a 1.1.7. Many ISV's, like me, have chosen the Java platform to avoid being at the mercy of OS marketshare dynamics in addition to the quality of the Java language. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message