Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:29:18 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com> To: j mckitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <200008151729.KAA03230@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:15:07 BST." <20000815181507.G40029@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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| 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? Yep. Forcing their customers (against overwhelming customer demand according to EE Times) to use only Sun or NT. Note that the engineer using Xilinx Foundation Series beside you really doesn't have a choice. He *must* run Windows to use the foremost FPGA development environment in the world. I know a lot of designers who hate Windows but to do their jobs really have no choice. | 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? These companies are typically *very* protective of their revenues. This situation is sometimes enforced by their investors. FlexLM is the top license management scheme used by the EDA/CAD vendors. Once they support a platform all the other LM's will "me-too" right behind them. Cheers, Jerry Hicks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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