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 -- o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | ~~~~~~~~~~~ jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org ~~~~~~~~~~~ | | "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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