From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 21 23:08:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B998316A41F for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:08:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2949243D4C for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:08:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id jALNBUb67945; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:11:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "P.U.Kruppa" Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:08:27 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 In-Reply-To: <20051119150615.E2461@www.pukruppa.net> Importance: Normal Cc: Victor Watkins , FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org, kayo.granillo@sun.com, "J.D. Bronson" Subject: RE: Solaris patches and Solaris Express X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:08:36 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of P.U.Kruppa >Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 6:13 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Victor Watkins; FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org; >kayo.granillo@sun.com; J.D. Bronson >Subject: RE: Solaris patches and Solaris Express > >> I never understood why anyone would go to Solaris 10 unless they had a >> 64 bit processor and compiled all their apps under a 64 bit compiler. >> Sun >> didn't either, which is why they originally didn't come out with a >> Solaris x86 >> version of Solaris 10 They only came out with it after much >screaming. >Probably they want to get a foot into the workstation market. Of >course their Java Desktop's performance and stability is >disgusting now, but if they manage to activate some kind of >community around OpenSolaris, it will become a nice working >enviroment within two years or so - see OpenOffice.org and >StarOffice. > Only problem with that is that Star Office met a severe need (the need for UNIX desktops to be able to deal with Microsoft's nasty file formats) when there wasn't anything else out there, but we have several choices for workstations now, it will be a lot harder to get a group coalesced. Kind of like the 6000 pound Apache gorilla has pretty much caused any other open source http server effort to remain stunted, at least in terms of market penetration. People patch Apache rather than reinvent the wheel. Ted