Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 18:52:33 -0800 (PST) From: Christopher Nielsen <enkhyl@scient.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Read this... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812121850400.338-100000@ender.sf.scient.com> In-Reply-To: <366F5E30.2ED4962C@softweyr.com>
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On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Wes Peters wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > One thing in particular occurred to me in this context: why does Sun > > want Linux or *BSD? On the whole, Solaris <whatever number it is > > this week> is a pretty good operating system, and neither Linux nor > > *BSD can equal it. What advantage would I have running FreeBSD on my > > UltraSparc? Or should we be doing what NetBSD and OpenBSD are already > > doing and running it on older (32 bit) Sparc hardware? > > That depends on which Sun you're talking about. From the standpoint > of Sun Microelectronics, the branch of Sun that sells hardware to OEMs, > they would garner a royalty-free operating system that can be embeded > into systems with no licensing fees. This would be a good incentive > for some markets they play in, most certainly telecommunications (i.e. > phone switches). Sun recently had a reorg. There are no longer individual operating companies with a parent holding company. Sun is one big company again. I believe this may have been a contributing factor to the death of the initial UltraSPARC porting effort. -- Christopher Nielsen Scient: The eBusiness Systems Innovator <http://www.scient.com>; cnielsen@scient.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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