Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:54:38 -0800 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Purchased Binaries Message-ID: <98DE64E1-EE7F-4B52-A204-A2AF70005FDE@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <20110304224553.GD28710@comcast.net> References: <5F4DD89C-5F3B-46B8-BA91-A25B8BF11EEB@lafn.org> <20110304224553.GD28710@comcast.net>
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On 4 March 2011, at 14:45, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Fri 04 Mar 2011 at 13:24:32 PST Doug Hardie wrote: >> I have a client who has purchased some software. I don't know = anything >> much about it yet other than it claims to run on Debian and CentOS. I >> suspect its binaries. I will have access to things like the = developer, >> name etc. on Monday. However, thats when he needs to know if I can = make >> it run on FreeBSD. >=20 > Are you bidding against a Linux guy for this job? No. I have the job. >=20 > That doesn't sound like a reasonable demand. Does he want your final > answer on Monday, or do you think you can buy some time for further > investigation He is under the gun and needs to get this working last week..... > if you tell him about FreeBSD's support for the Linux ABI, > etc.? He is pretty much non-technical and will go with any solution I believe = will work. >=20 > Maybe bring in a FreeBSD laptop and do a demo where you install some > Linux binary from the web and show him that it runs? (Be sure to > practice the demo beforehand!) I still wouldn't give him an ironclad > guarantee that the software he bought will run too, but perhaps the = demo > will raise his confidence level enough to give you a chance to find = out. Pretty much I will have the real software on Monday and will need to get = it up and going very quickly. I want to use FreeBSD because all the = other parts of what he needs I already have running on various FreeBSD = servers. Also, I very much like the FreeBSD approach (like to pf) of = don't break things that previously worked without workarounds so that = production systems are not killed. >=20 >=20
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