Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:40:19 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com> Cc: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000815193445.68978F-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <200008151704.KAA03089@mindspring.com>
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On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > > > > CAD. Lot's of CAD packages are for solaris first and then maybe for some > > other OS. And many other things. > > > > The stereotypical unix worstation uses are: > > * SUN - cad/eda > > * HP - GIS and similar > > * SGI - scientific visualisation > > > > These are, of course, but stereotypes. Note that Digital and IBM are left > > out. > > Well, perhaps a bit more than a simple stereotype, one enforced by > clueless marketing people at Xilinx, Modelsim, Cadence, WindRiver and > nearly all the EDA vendors. The 'stereotype' thing was a disclaimer against anybody pointing out the things that do support HP/AIX for EDA, etc. 8-) There is a similarily fuzzy picture with palform support for things like DB, SAP, etc. > > A first step toward overcoming this situation would be having a FreeBSD > native version of FlexLM. There exists one for Linux but without > FlexLM there is absolutely *no* hope of ever getting native versions. > Agreed. > Second step? Get Bristol or one of the other Win32 -> Unix portability > companies to support FreeBSD. > That only applies for things moving off win32 to also supporting unix, not to the old fish that already do support unix. For the other's, it's supporting standdards, having Motif/CDE/whatever toolkit available and standard supported easily is the key. > Cheers, > > Jerry Hicks > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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