From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2e91a32061bde112 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Pascal Martin Subject: Re: JAVA and ADA JGNAT Date: 2000/02/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 582197005 References: <862sv5$sug$1@pirates.Armstrong.EDU> <862t3o$9aa1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <86k8r6$alp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <86kpbu$aik1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <86la8r$519$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <87i8h0$lki$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@mediaone.net X-Trace: cmnws01.we.mediaone.net 949826979 24.130.45.139 (Sun, 06 Feb 2000 00:49:39 PST) Organization: MediaOne-Road Runner, Western Region NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 00:49:39 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-02-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <87i8h0$lki$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar wrote: > If you really think that a multi-billion dollar company like Redhat > relies entirely on a competitor (Transmeta) to control their > internal development, then you really have a reality model > quite divorced from any reality :-) Well.. Transmeta is not in competition with RedHat: - RedHat sells a Linux-based OS, as software product, Transmeta sells chips and releases a Linux kernel and a limited set of tools for free (a meta-distribution, they say) to OEMs. - RedHat's stated goal is to provide an OS for Internet servers and to cash in support services, Transmeta is selling a chip for thin Internet clients and laptops. > If you really think that Redhat is doing no development, then > it is simply because you are unaware of the major development I am aware of it: I use Gnome :-), in which RedHat participated a lot. But they do not develop Linux, the kernel. And probably 90% of the software they deliver is not from RedHat, so they are hardly in control: the Ethernet drivers and Beowulf (NASA), X11 (Open Group), Apache (The Apache Group), the BSD tools, Emacs (FSF), Mozilla (Netscape), KDE (KDE Consortium), AbiWord (AbiSource), XV (John Bradley), sendmail (Sendmail, Inc), etc... Add to that the fact that many developments made in RedHat labs are copyrighted by the Author (not RedHat) and follow this one when he leaves (Rasterman and Enlightment comes to mind). Nothing in common with ACT, which I believe develops most of the software it delivers. I see ACT as a technology provider, RedHat more as a software editor. Considering Microsoft, software editors may have a bright future (a lot of Microsoft technologies have been developped outside of Microsoft..). > (for example, ACT is quite happy if you think that GNAT > is *the* version of Ada 95 :-) Well.. having worked for Alsys/TSP/Aonix/, I do not buy in such a thing. Imagine: I once though AdaMagic was The Ada95 Reference Implementation 8-} ------------------------------------------------------------------ Pascal F. Martin.