It's not the Mac per se. Lately, I haven't been terrible sanguine about running Linux and am much more interested in running OS X myself, but that's a different issue from whether a business case could be made for running on the platform. Philosophically, I wish there were more emphasis on building a product that could be run on a variety of platfroms (proprietary or open source) than on one particular platform, but I think that puts me in the minority here. Having said that, I certainly don't fault Fidelity for not making GT.M open source on platforms other than Linux. In fact, I was very concerned that my post would be taken as a criticism of Fidelity for just that reason.
--- "K.S. Bhaskar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg -- > > Thank you for your comments, as well as all the support you provide > to > members of this forum. Let me respond to your inputs: > > GT.M has so few dependencies that it runs on every current release of > every major distribution of x86 GNU/Linux that I know of. It has > been > run on SuSE, Gentoo, Debian, Red Hat, Fedora, Slackware, Mandriva... > There are too many Linux distributions for us to keep running in > house > and hence to support. If you hear of a Linux distribution on which > it > doesn't run, please bring it to my attention. > > It is possible to get GT.M (and hence VistA) to run on *BSD on x86 > hardware (it has been reported as being done, and I previously posted > links). Sometimes I just have to make hard decisions about where > I/we > can spend the time providing support - since it not possible to even > keep up with Linux distributions. > > There is already GT.M for Sun SPARC Solaris, HP PA-RISC HP-UX, and HP > Alpha/AXP OpenVMS. However, it is not open source free software (it > is > more traditionally licensed, and always more reasonably priced than > alternatives, but not free). I would be happy to make available > VistA > on GT.M on any of those, or other supported, platforms on a free > trial > license to anyone who wants to evaluate it, but ultimately a GT.M > license will need to be purchased. [Yes, go ahead, question my > sanity. > Why do I so vigorously advocate GT.M on x86 GNU/Linux where there is > no > license revenue? Sometimes my management does too...] > > Since we have a GT.M for IBM pSeries AIX, it would be easy for us to > provide a GT.M for Mac OS X if there is a market demand. But I can't > make a credible business case to my executive management for an open > source free GT.M on Mac OS X. If anyone feels that they could deploy > a > reasonable number of VistA systems on Mac OS X, please contact me off > line. > > I think that covers all major computing platforms. > > No, wait, I forgot. Isn't there something for commodity hardware > from a > small software company in the other Washington? Called something > like > Windows? > > Humor aside, I wish I could say more at this time about GT.M on > Microsoft Windows, but I can't. For the moment, yes, I am seriously > thinking about an OpenVistA VivA based on Colinux+Debian or > Puppy+QEMU. > > -- Bhaskar > > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 00:29 -0500, Gregory Woodhouse wrote: > > I assume your basic goal is to come up with something like a turn > > key > > solution. Is that a fair assumption? Going back to the network > > effect > > message, I don't know that marrying your solution to Debian, > > Knoppix, > > Red Hat, or what have you is the right way to go. It will be easier > > > to get user "buy in" if the users feel they can use their favorite > > > Linux distribution (or, while we're at it: What about Solaris, > > HP/UX, > > OS X, (Free|Open|Net)BSD, OpenDarwin, OpenVMS, or even Windows)? > > === > > Gregory Woodhouse > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > "A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his > > forefathers. -- Benjamin Disraeli > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle > Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing > & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * > http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > === Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
