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Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk
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On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 11:16 +0100, Rico Secada wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:12:02 +0600
> "I. Levashew" <octagram@bluebottle.com> wrote:
> 
> > Florian Weimer wrote:
> > >> Seriously, by the count of installations, isn't the future of
> > >> *BSD at risk.
> 
> You have to be extremely ignorant to state something like that. 
> 
> What counts are you talking about?  

PC OS share, number of *BSD workstations in tech companies, etc..

I don't doubt that (even outside Yahoo!) there are still some
machines that run FreeBSD and relatives for good reasons.
Could you point to up-to-date resources on BSD usage? Like,
"We, a major non-Yahoo! company, will extend our use of *BSD
driven computers because we think so-and-so"?

(The FreeBSD advocacy pages refer you to an installation
statistics site. By this, and by other equally vague sources
of information, Solaris, Linux, and Windows 2003, and lesser
known non-PC solutions seem to be the more frequent choices
of major sites connected to the net.
Obviously, this just shows what is reachable from outside,
but still...)

I notice that there are some single board computers for
use with firewall software, based on FreeBSD, good.
FreeBSD people seem to have taken pride in quality control.
So we could hope to have non-PC, non-mainframe, small computers
that would be a good match for what Ada is about.
OTOH, I see many hints to either proprietary OSs,
or Linux, for example in DSL boxes or mobile computers (phones,
navigation). Or Microsoft efforts to reduce Cost of Market
Entrance for mobile computing companies, and their generous
offerings for universities--having obvious consequences.

This is why I think that the future of *BSD is more "at risk"
than that of Ada. And for good or bad, that of GNAT on BSD.
Write a killer app and things will change.