From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 15 10:52:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A21437BE7E for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:52:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhix@mindspring.com) Received: from jhix.mindspring.com (user-33qtihi.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.202.50]) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA22704; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:51:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhix (jhix@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jhix.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA03351; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:55:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhix@jhix.mindspring.com) Message-Id: <200008151755.KAA03351@mindspring.com> To: Narvi Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:40:19 +0200." Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:55:21 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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. Not exactly. There are quite a few products out there which currently use these toolsets as the basis of their Unix support. Wind River's Tornado is one, there are quite few more I've encountered under Solaris. It seems to be a trend, for better or worse. I've had more than one vendor cite the lack of these toolsets for FreeBSD as a factor limiting their support. > For the other's, it's supporting standdards, having Motif/CDE/whatever > toolkit available and standard supported easily is the key. I'd argue that Motif/CDE has done more to harm the Unix marketplace than anything else, not counting Windows (but that's another troll :-) Cheers, Jerry Hicks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message