From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 15 10:15:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2040437B505 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:15:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13OkIt-0001wR-00; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:15:08 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA40492; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:15:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:15:07 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: Narvi , brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <20000815181507.G40029@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <200008151704.KAA03089@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200008151704.KAA03089@mindspring.com>; from jhix@mindspring.com on Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:04:43AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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