From owner-freebsd-java Thu Oct 31 12:43:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB8BB37B401; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:43:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECF6E43E42; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:43:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g9VKhWvn183792; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:43:32 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20021030171447.GC10117@zot.electricrain.com> References: <20021030142457.A30528@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <15807.23103.607937.532250@emerger.yogotech.com> <20021030151812.A30986@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20021030182502.A52856@phantom.cris.net> <20021030171447.GC10117@zot.electricrain.com> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:43:31 -0500 To: chris-freebsd@randomcamel.net, Alexey Zelkin From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: wake up call for Sun? Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 9:14 AM -0800 10/30/02, Chris Doherty wrote: >On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 06:25:02PM +0200, Alexey Zelkin said: > > * Only after 5.x-RELEASE become real and stable release (not early > > than 6 months from now, per current estimates) > >holy christmas. are you sure? current@ has been chattering as if >the release date is relatively near 5.0-release is very near (well, unless something screws up). That does not mean that it is ready to be used in a demanding production environment (and I think yahoo certainly qualifies as that!). Any prudent business would want to see 5.x in action for awhile before switching to it. Most people are assuming that we'll need to be at 5.1-release or 5.2-release before businesses would be comfortable with using it for business-critical production use. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message