Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:00:52 +0200 From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr> To: Ian G <iang@iang.org> Cc: java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] ia64/sparc64 jdk 1.5.0 ports? Message-ID: <41EF6534.4090704@ebs.gr> In-Reply-To: <41EEB8CE.9030009@iang.org> References: <20050119142601.GA75697@phantom.cris.net> <41EE8E27.1010301@ebs.gr> <41EEB8CE.9030009@iang.org>
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Ian G wrote: > 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!) I had the same reservations about other platform support and that is why I said I am "not sure either should be high-priority items". But then I considered that it is other people's time and effort we are talking about, so who am I to tell them what to do :-) > 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 > The organizations I had in mind were mostly from the academic and ISP world. Publicly funded universities in particular have large deployments of Sun hardware from the 90's and are always on a tight budget, at least here in Greece. They are also large adopters of grids and grid-like infrastructure for scientific reasearch (not necessarily IT-related), so they seem like a good fit. The best new though is that quite a few of them are consolidating their infrastructure on FreeBSD. For deployment in banks I agree with you. Not to mention that their staff here have this saying, that "nobody got fired for buying IBM" :-) Cheers, Panagiotis
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