Messages in this thread | | | From | (Zygo Blaxell) | Subject | Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order | Date | 10 Mar 1999 12:32:41 -0500 |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.990309173002.23517A-100000@toaster.roan.co.uk>, Mike Jagdis <mike@roan.co.uk> wrote: >On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Florian Lohoff wrote: >What planet are you on?!? Have you the faintest clue how long >it takes the big vendors (like Informix and Oracle) to gear >up to port, QA and support a new platform? And then you have >to wait for the next tier of application software to be ported, >hoping that (a) the company still exists, (b) they care about >porting the code you want, (c) they aren't going to stiff you >for a load more money in the process.
Not a problem with open-source applications.
> Running, and *depending on* truely ancient programs is not >that uncommon!
Not uncommon, but not to be encouraged either.
-- Zygo Blaxell, Linux Engineer, Corel Corporation, zygob@corel.ca (work), zblaxell@furryterror.org (play). It's my opinion, I tell you! Mine! All MINE! Size of 'diff -Nurw [...] winehq corel' as of Wed Mar 10 12:14:00 EST 1999 Lines/files: In 2058 / 29, Out 5773 / 59, Both 7821 / 85
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