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Re: (ASCEND) In Defense Of Ascend...
At 03:28 PM 3/21/98 +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Matt Holdrege wrote:
>
>> Not to mention Linux! There are too many Unix's for most commercial vendors
>> to support. Especially those vendors who don't focus on server software. If
>> we were giving away source code it would be no problem. But we spent a lot
>> of valuable engineering time developing this code and we aren't going to
>> give it away. And since engineering time is so valuable, we simply can't
>> support every unix out there.
>
>Rubbish, supporting the different flavours of BSD would probably take
>little more than a recompile. Ditto Linux (which is especially easy to
>port to/from).
>
>If the code was written to be portable (which isn't _that_ hard under
>Unix), then this wouldn't be an issue. But then again this is the same
>company which brought us the Java configurator which only runs on Windows.
It's not just compiling. One of the key features of our commercial products
is that they are supported! To support 18 flavors of unix we would have to
train each tech support person on the various differences in such unixes.
With OS's like Linux which are generally highly customized, it would be a
royal pain to try and debug someone elses system.
Matt Holdrege http://www.ascend.com matt@ascend.com
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