FW: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

[Morten Liebach]

On 2005-01-10 10:16:34 +0100, Joris Verschoor wrote:
> Ean Kingston wrote:
> 
> >I have to agree with Achilleus on all his points.
> >
> >The company I work for was making a similar decision a couple of years ago
> >and not having a binary distribution of Java took FreeBSD right out of the
> >running.
> >
> >Management takes the stance that if they can't get a binary for production
> >use then the product is not sufficiently supported.
> >
> >So, I run SUN systems at work now.
> > 
> >
> On some servers,  we'd like to run FreeBSD, but instead we run linux, 
> because we need good java support... I hope some day sun will wake up.

Here at work we use FreeBSD 4.x servers running Java and tomcat, it is
not a problem at all, it just works.

We run 8 webservers and about the same number of backend servers like
that.  We only use Linux for our load balancers.

Maybe there's specific things in your apps that won't work, I don't
know, but my experience is that there's no reason not to use FreeBSD for
running Java apps, unless you need bleeding edge stuff perhaps.

Have a nice day
                                 Morten

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