Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 22:31:18 +0000 From: Mark Blackman <tmb@asd1.rl.ac.uk> To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Semi-Historical Note [jasone@canonware.com: Disinvolvement with FreeBSD/SPARC] Message-ID: <19981116223118.A17454@asd1.rl.ac.uk>
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Just for some context regarding recent messages, and this gentleman if still employed by Sun Microelectronics can get you documentation. ----- Forwarded message from Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com> ----- X-Authentication-Warning: mozart.canonware.com: jasone owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:37:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com> Reply-To: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com> To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Disinvolvement with FreeBSD/SPARC Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Back in November or so, I announced that as part of my job at Sun, I would be working on a port of FreeBSD to the UltraSPARC. Since then, a number of events have happened that prevented me from making much progress on the port. In particular, I was put on a high-priority internal project to speed up progress. This project took virtually all of my time at work (plus some). My superiors made the correct decision in putting me on the project, but it did impede my progress on FreeBSD. Most recently, it appears that marketing at Sun Microelectronics does not have the necessary tangible demand from potential customers to put resources into the port, especially given that there are other more lucrative projects that are under-staffed. Once again, the people making the decisions are doing the proper thing, but it of course has a negative impact on the FreeBSD port, at least as far as my time is concerned. This puts me in an uncomfortable position. I'm very interested in seeing a FreeBSD/SPARC port, but it is no longer part of my job to work on the port. That means I have to make a decision about what to do with my "free time" outside of work. Deciding whether to pursue the FreeBSD/SPARC port has been a difficult decision for me. In the end however, I have decided to not work on it as a personal project. The main reason for this is that I have been working on the design for SQRL, a SQL-92 DBMS (http://www.sqrl.org/sqrl) for over two years now, and writing it is very important to me. Since SQRL is my true programming love, I don't think I would be able to do the FreeBSD/SPARC port justice. There are hopefully some positive aspects of my decision for the FreeBSD community. I'm developing SQRL on FreeBSD, and you can be sure that it will run best on FreeBSD. It will be an excellent DBMS, an asset to FreeBSD. =) Also, my job at Sun includes supporting people in porting their OSes to the UltraSPARC. I am available to anyone in the FreeBSD group as an information resource, and I will make it a priority to aid any FreeBSD porting efforts with useful information. I hope the FreeBSD community can understand and accept my decision to discontinue work on FreeBSD/SPARC at this time. Undoubtedly this email will perturb some people, but I'd rather do that now than dishonestly act like I'm kinda sorta working on the port. Regards, Jason Evans Jason Evans Email: [jasone@canonware.com] Home phone: [(650) 856-8204] Work phone: [(408) 774-8007] Quote: ["Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" - Thomas Edison] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message ----- End forwarded message ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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