Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 13:29:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: "Karl M. Joch" <k.joch@ctseuro.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compat headed for history Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0406271328180.19712-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <40DE7BD0.8080304@ctseuro.com>
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On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Karl M. Joch wrote: > I think if one would ask the stable userbase there would be lot of > different answers. like for me, i tell customers they have a long live, > very stable OS for their servers where updates are easy and free and > they can stay always with the latest release. now i got the problem that > in the first step there was mails around, that the stallion drivers are > removed from the source tree. so i had to tell a lot of customers they > have to trash the stallion card they buyed because it was in the > hardware compatibility list. most was mad, because they have invested > the hardware after changing their systems from SCO to FreeBSD (we > replaced a lot of them). Now I have to tell them "Great, you trashed the > cards (not alot of them have), but you have to stay at 4.x because the > software (ERP/Financial/Billing) we moved from SCO to FreeBSD with IBCS > Emulation doesnt work on 5.x". > > No, I am not able to maintain the moduls because i am not a good enough > programmer. If that would be the case i would have adapted the stallion > stl driver. > > Flame me if you like, but from a users/intergrators point of view > breaking the backward compatibility that way is really worse for the > public image of the OS. And the answer "you are free to stay with 4.x" > is not an answer acceptable for customers. This sounds like a compelling argument for keeping the emulation. After all it's teh end-user that we have to consider.. > -- > Best regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen, > > Karl M. Joch > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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