Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:53:30 -0500 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> Cc: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To Do list / Goals Message-ID: <20021104145330.A82034@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20021102033749.13758.qmail@web11806.mail.yahoo.com>; from wyldephyre2@yahoo.com on Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 07:37:49PM -0800 References: <3DC2959A.4@centtech.com> <20021102033749.13758.qmail@web11806.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 07:37:49PM -0800, Haikal Saadh wrote: > > > (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? The threads issue is being addressed by KSE. Unfortunately, that's a 5.0 thing, and we can't really push that right now. :-( ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.AbsoluteBSD.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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