On Friday 14 April 2006 10:06 am, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> As you know, we strive for better than 99% quality and every package must
> go through tests and peer review.  I have to get Eric's latest pine onto my
> Sparc 20 here just to test for that "vanishingly small" sun4m user base out
> there.  I think this is why Lockheed Martin uses the software.  They are
> stuck with some old gear doing really specific tasks.  So .. they use the
> sun4m stuff.

That may be true today, but these folks are going to find out about the new 
planes that run on AMD64 jet fuel. Even the govie jobs will be running on 
commodity hardware...they can even run the latest Solaris.<g>

> We could really use your help on some things.  A valuable community
> software guy is really a precious resource and we need to look at this
> again.
>
> OKay .. everything goes back internal then on this issue.

Good to see something nice from you...life is too short, don't let it get to 
you...take your family away and enjoy yourself for a couple days. Life is 
what you make out of it...(I just had a vacation last week, it was good. I 
missed all of your elequent posts!;-).

-- 

Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems
Solaris x86 Engineering


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