FW: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

[Joris Verschoor]

Morten Liebach wrote:

>On 2005-01-10 10:16:34 +0100, Joris Verschoor wrote:
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>>Ean Kingston wrote:
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>>>I have to agree with Achilleus on all his points.
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>>>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.
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>>>Management takes the stance that if they can't get a binary for production
>>>use then the product is not sufficiently supported.
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>>>So, I run SUN systems at work now.
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>>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.
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>Here at work we use FreeBSD 4.x servers running Java and tomcat, it is
>not a problem at all, it just works.
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>We run 8 webservers and about the same number of backend servers like
>that.  We only use Linux for our load balancers.
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>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.
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We've done some tests, and everything works, but the build process takes 
ages and updates are slow. + 5.0 is not ready, but we won't be doing 5.0 
stuff yet, although we'd love to use generics etc.

>Have a nice day
>                                 Morten
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