Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:34:33 +0100 From: Joris Verschoor <j.verschoor@nefli.nl> To: Morten Liebach <m@mongers.org> Cc: java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java Message-ID: <41E25A39.9040506@nefli.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050110102730.GA31285@mongers.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0501071006420.16858-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com> <41DE4504.5040300@ebs.gr> <2569.216.220.59.169.1105114005.squirrel@216.220.59.169> <41E247F2.2070605@nefli.nl> <20050110102730.GA31285@mongers.org>
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Morten Liebach wrote: >On 2005-01-10 10:16:34 +0100, Joris Verschoor wrote: > > >>Ean Kingston wrote: >> >> >> >>>I have to agree with Achilleus on all his points. >>> >>>The company I work for was making a similar decision a couple of years ago >>>and not having a binary distribution of Java took FreeBSD right out of the >>>running. >>> >>>Management takes the stance that if they can't get a binary for production >>>use then the product is not sufficiently supported. >>> >>>So, I run SUN systems at work now. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>On some servers, we'd like to run FreeBSD, but instead we run linux, >>because we need good java support... I hope some day sun will wake up. >> >> > >Here at work we use FreeBSD 4.x servers running Java and tomcat, it is >not a problem at all, it just works. > >We run 8 webservers and about the same number of backend servers like >that. We only use Linux for our load balancers. > >Maybe there's specific things in your apps that won't work, I don't >know, but my experience is that there's no reason not to use FreeBSD for >running Java apps, unless you need bleeding edge stuff perhaps. > > We've done some tests, and everything works, but the build process takes ages and updates are slow. + 5.0 is not ready, but we won't be doing 5.0 stuff yet, although we'd love to use generics etc. >Have a nice day > Morten > > >
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