FW: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

[Morten Liebach]

On 2005-01-10 11:34:33 +0100, Joris Verschoor wrote:
> Morten Liebach wrote:
> 
> >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.
> > 
> 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.

You should build on a dedicated build host anyway, then it doesn't
matter much that it takes hours to bulid, and you can build site
specific packages of all kinds of other stuff too etc.

But getting 5.0 is a problem for now.

Have a nice day
                                Morten

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