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Date:      Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:36:01 -0800
From:      W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com>
To:        ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What result would *you* like from the merger?
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From: Eric Wayte <ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>
Subject: What result would *you* like from the merger?
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:27:45 -0500 (EST)

> Everyone is talking about the merger, so I thought I'd start a new thread:
> 
> What would you like to see from the merger?
> 
> 
> I would like to see two things - native support of Oracle and VMWare.
> Oracle has partnered with Red Hat - why not partner with BSDI?  BSDI is
> proably more profitable and would be another IPO for Oracle to buy into.
> 

The only thing I'd give a rats patootie about VMWare is if it were useful
as a development aid for /usr/src/sys/boot hacking :-)

Oracle is less useful for my purposes but some people seem to want it.

Here's my wishlist of things I'd like to see for FreeBSD resulting
from the merger:

1. PowerPC support
2. Sparc support
3. eBSD (romfs specifically)
4. improved SMP support

> VMWare could be brought in to the BSD fold as well.  How?  Offer to help
> them get VMWare working natively under BSD and then bundle it, just like
> Mandrake Linux does with their PowerPack.

Yawn :-)

Cheers,

Jerry Hicks
jhix@mindspring.com



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