[advocacy-discuss] Software 'wish list'!

[Rich Reynolds]

sure the could go to the headache of building a IPS repository for their 
stuff, but that is simply another cost the must incur just to support a 
disto delivered by Sun...   not all the OpenSolaris distros will embrace 
the IPS packaging model and now the Third Party Vendor has to incur the 
cost of multiple repositories and the staffing to build the correct 
packaging for each of them...

tarballs sure sound good at this point...

rich



Uros Nedic wrote:
>  
> Don't you think that "Third Party Software Vendors" are not
> able to deploy their own IPS repos?
> 
> Uros
> 
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> [mailto:advocacy-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Rich Reynolds
> Sent: June 12, 2009 7:49 AM
> To: HeCSa
> Cc: advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Subject: Re: [advocacy-discuss] Software 'wish list'!
> 
> Hi all -
> 
> this is a classic request of Solaris Marketing, "here is the ammunition 
> to make the case that a port of your application has market value". In 
> the old days of the catalyst books and big tar balls it was relatively 
> easy to get Third Party Software Vendors to port, now the additional 
> issues of packaging and repositories make the argument harder, unless 
> pkg.opensolaris.org is willing to make a available for free a home for 
> applications that have cost associated...
> 
> I would give a +1 to CATIA, Cadence, and Agilent(some of whom are just 
> down the road from me), and ill think of others to add as the weekend 
> progresses...
> 
> 
> rich
> 
> 
> HeCSa wrote:
>> My two cents is a piece of software which is *not* opensource, but
>> really needed: Skype, or any program to understand his protocol.
>>
>> Thanks, and best regards,
>>
>> HeCSa.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 19:06 -0700, "C. Bergström" wrote:
>>> Uros Nedic wrote:
>>>>   To whom it may concern!
>>>>
>>>>   This is 'wish list' of software me and my colleagues (and other
>>>> people, too) would like to see ported on OpenSolaris.
>>>>
>>>>   
>>> I don't mean to rain on your parade, but how much of this stuff is open 
>>> source?  Commercial software if I'm not mistaken is generally market 
>>> driven.  If you're truly interested in results I'd identify the closest 
>>> open source counterpart.. ensure it's ported to opensolaris and lastly 
>>> implement the missing features/functionality you and your colleagues 
>>> need.  If you can't code then maybe you can contribute in other ways.
>>>> 1. Adobe (whole software portfolio)
>>>> 2. Wolfram Research - Mathematica
>>>> 3. MathWorks - Matlab
>>>> 4. CATIA (Computer aided engineering software)
>>>> 5. Cadence (whole software portfolio but OrCad first)
>>>> 6. Autodesk (whole software portfolio)
>>>> 7. Agilent Technologies (whole software portfolio)
>>>> 8. National Instruments (whole software portfolio)
>>>>
>>>>   Maybe, SUN could think about giving software engineering support and
>>>> with joint forces with above mentioned companies to port all these
>>>> software.
>>>>
>>>>   
>>> ...
>>>>   After that OpenSolaris will be best platform for any user.
>>>>   
>>> There's no panacea in terms of platforms..
>>>
>>>
>>> ./C
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