From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Nov 1 19:37:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E64537B401 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 19:37:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from web11806.mail.yahoo.com (web11806.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.160]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 050B843E91 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 19:37:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wyldephyre2@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20021102033749.13758.qmail@web11806.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [211.28.96.37] by web11806.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 19:37:49 PST Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 19:37:49 -0800 (PST) From: Haikal Saadh Subject: Re: To Do list / Goals To: Eric Anderson Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3DC2959A.4@centtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > (yahoo.com for instance, might say "FreeBSD saves us thousands..." > - choose media targets Hmmm. Yahoo's Talking about moving to PHP from a proprietary system. And one of the selection criteria for prospective languages (perl, php, java etc) was that it should run on FreeBSD. They didn't pick java because " you can’t really use Java w/o threads • Threads support on FreeBSD is not great " Interesting, yes? [http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message