From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 19 19:40:21 2005 Return-Path: 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 DB56A16A4CF for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:40:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.enhyper.com (mailgate.enhyper.com [62.49.250.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E568F43D54 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:40:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iang@iang.org) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by www.enhyper.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id j0JJe4212961 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:40:14 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: www.enhyper.com: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <41EEB8CE.9030009@iang.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:45:18 +0000 From: Ian G Organization: http://iang.org/ User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050108) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: java@freebsd.org References: <20050119142601.GA75697@phantom.cris.net> <41EE8E27.1010301@ebs.gr> In-Reply-To: <41EE8E27.1010301@ebs.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [RFC] ia64/sparc64 jdk 1.5.0 ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:40:22 -0000 Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > "that might consider deploying FreeBSD..." Given the amount of work in getting Java to run on FreeBSD, I think it's a bit of a stretch to think about "maybes." It's wonderful to think of all these platforms that FreeBSD could run on, and Sparc machines are nice .... but (!) some poor muggins has to do the work, and when they are doing Sparc work, it means they are *not* doing other work. (Thanks for all that work, guys!) Also, those very same institutions (banks mostly) will quite happily buy another commodity PC if they want to play around with (Java on) FreeBSD. The cost of the management of an OS on a commodity PC is well in excess of the value of the PC, for a bank. It's IMHO a mistake to think that old hardware has anything but negative cost associated with it, banks would be burning up money just even thinking about putting another OS on it for fun.... All IMHO! iang -- News and views on what matters in finance+crypto: http://financialcryptography.com/