[RFC] ia64/sparc64 jdk 1.5.0 ports?

[Ian G]

Panagiotis Astithas wrote:

>  "that might consider deploying FreeBSD..."


Given the amount of work in getting Java to run
on FreeBSD, I think it's a bit of a stretch to think
about "maybes."  It's wonderful to think of all
these platforms that FreeBSD could run on, and
Sparc machines are nice .... but (!) some poor
muggins has to do the work, and when they are
doing Sparc work, it means they are *not* doing
other work.

(Thanks for all that work, guys!)

Also, those very same institutions
(banks mostly) will quite happily buy another
commodity PC if they want to play around with
(Java on) FreeBSD.  The cost of the management of
an OS on a commodity PC is well in excess of the
value of the PC, for a bank.  It's IMHO a mistake
to think that old hardware has anything but
negative cost associated with it, banks would
be burning up money just even thinking about
putting another OS on it for fun....

All IMHO!

iang

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