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Date:      Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:15:07 +0100
From:      j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday!
Message-ID:  <20000815181507.G40029@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200008151704.KAA03089@mindspring.com>; from jhix@mindspring.com on Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:04:43AM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000815183030.68978A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> <200008151704.KAA03089@mindspring.com>

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On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:04:43AM -0700, W Gerald Hicks wrote:
| > The stereotypical unix worstation uses are:
| > 	* SUN - cad/eda
| > 	* HP - GIS and similar
| > 	* SGI - scientific visualisation
| > 
| > These are, of course, but stereotypes. Note that Digital and IBM are left
| > out.
| 
| Well, perhaps a bit more than a simple stereotype, one enforced by
| clueless marketing people at Xilinx, Modelsim, Cadence, WindRiver and
| nearly all the EDA vendors.

I'm afraid i don't understand.  WHat are the marketers doing wrong?
Promoting ONLY those OS's for these types of apps?

| A first step toward overcoming this situation would be having a FreeBSD
| native version of FlexLM.  There exists one for Linux but without
| FlexLM there is absolutely *no* hope of ever getting native versions.

So native FlexLM would have to come first, and then other apps of this type
would follow?


jm
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