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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
> 



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