Compile Farms for Commercial Software?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday December 10, 2002 @09:11AM from the for-unix-shops-with-low-hardware-budgets dept.

unix-coder asks: "How can a small software company get to 'rent' accounts for short times on a wide range of machines running different commercial Unixes with different CPUs? SourceForge's compiler farms are great for open source projects (and besides, open source projects will get ported/tested/fixed on all the platforms that matter to the people that use them). But what about commercial projects where you want to port/build/test for a wide range of architectures and OSes (AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, ...) but don't want your several server rooms full of weird hardware of your own?"

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Re:dumbass by daviddennis · 2002-12-10 09:21 · Score: 5, Interesting

The fact that the license doesn't let you use it for commercial software.

That seemed clear enough to me.

I'd probably just tell him to buy the novel hardware. I bought a very nice Indigo2 for $400-odd a few months back, and it's a cooler experience to have the real equipment someplace.

But that's only me.

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Sourceforge by ikeleib · 2002-12-10 10:54 · Score: 3, Interesting

I'm sure that VA, who is always looking for some money, would be happy to strike up some sort of arrangement. They obviously have the resources already in place.