[advocacy-discuss] Has the OpenSolaris team done any investigation of porting WINE to Solaris or engaging the WINE team?

[Roman Strobl]

Hi Aaron,

see:

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/wine/

-Roman

Aaron Houston wrote:
> Hey...
> fyi ...here is a *question I got from the Houston TX JUG leader who 
> read Alan's post to the advocacy list*...(JimB also happens to be a 
> member of the Houston Linux community)....
>
> *Has the OpenSolaris team done any investigation of porting WINE to 
> Solaris or engaging the WINE team?*
>
> Does it make sense? to engage the WINE team...? VirtualBox?
>
> here is a similar post/question 
> <http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Unix/Solaris/Q_23148533.html> 
> about someone who installed Solaris 10 on a Dell PowerEdge server and 
> was asked to install Wine and use the Dell as an emulation server..
>
> Thanks...
>
> Aaron
>
> Jim Bethancourt wrote:
>> Has the OpenSolaris team done any investigation of porting WINE to 
>> Solaris or engaging the WINE team to help with such an endeavor? 
>>  This could at least be a stopgap measure if not a solution.
>>
>> Aaron, I'm not sure if this will reach the Champions Users list since 
>> I'm not on it, so you may need to forward it onto their list if it 
>> doesn't show up.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jim
>> Houston JUG President
>>
>>
>>
>>     Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>>     Uros Nedic wrote:
>>>       
>>>>       ...why SUN, as a global corporation when decided to go to the market of
>>>>     operating systems
>>>>     for personal computers, laptops, nettops, netbooks, etc., did not make some
>>>>     contacts with
>>>>     Adobe, Autodesk, Wolfram Research and other software vendors to ask them for
>>>>     porting their
>>>>     commercial software to OpenSolaris?
>>>>         
>>>     What makes you think Sun didn't do this?   The soon-to-be-released Adobe Acrobat
>>>     for OpenSolaris & Solaris x86 is one example of a company heavily lobbied by Sun
>>>     to port.   When it comes to dealing with other companies, you're not going to
>>>     know most of what happens, because it happens behind closed doors - not all
>>>     companies are interested in transparency or in weakening their position in
>>>     ongoing negotiations by having details made public.
>>>
>>>       
>>>>       And for the end of this letter - last observation. Here, we will develop
>>>>     drivers for existing
>>>>     and old devices, but also, SUN should approach big hardware vendors (at
>>>>     least!), and agree
>>>>     with them driver support for their future hardware products. 
>>>>         
>>>     Again, been happening for years.  In the area I'm most familiar with, Intel &
>>>     nVidia work with us to make sure their new graphics products have drivers when
>>>     released.
>>>
>>>       
>>
>>
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Roman Strobl

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