We have a sitewide license for Oracle, so the license cost wasn't an issue for the department, but hardware costs were.
We set up an unused desktop PC with a copy of Red Hat Advanced Server (P3 730Mhz, 512 Mb RAM) and it is running several databases in Oracle which compare favourably with our aging Sun boxes. What's more, because IDE drives are so cheap we got several huge disks and got reliability and speed extremely cheaply.
Well worth the try if the license cost is not a issue.
Yes, the GPL would most probably be the license of the merged architecture, if we ever get to that point. And there won't be any problem, since because it will be toolkit agnostic, it won't need to link to neither gtk nor qt
I am no expert in component technology, but there seems to be some confusion here that I'll try to clear up.
This issue has very little to do with toolkits. Each part would continue to code with their own, but the component framework would allow to embed code from each into another (well, bonobo does, and the final solution should have this characteristic)
License issues do not apply, as far as I know, since code from different components is not linked together. Rather, they are executed independtly and they communicate with each other. Nothing has changed with respect to the Debian/KDE problem.
In short, the best example (which is in the article), is being able to use the konqueror html display engine in nautilus -or any other gnome app for that matter- such is the beauty of components programming.
Just yesterday I took the time to watch the the video of the Crusoe presentation. One of the key points they stressed is that an internet appliance must have plugin compatibility, and they are able to offer that since you are actually running a PC in disguise. You don't need to develop new software, just use plain vanilla netscape and plugins, either for Win32 or Linux.
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We have a sitewide license for Oracle, so the license cost wasn't an issue for the department, but hardware costs were.
We set up an unused desktop PC with a copy of Red Hat Advanced Server (P3 730Mhz, 512 Mb RAM) and it is running several databases in Oracle which compare favourably with our aging Sun boxes. What's more, because IDE drives are so cheap we got several huge disks and got reliability and speed extremely cheaply.
Well worth the try if the license cost is not a issue.
Yes, the GPL would most probably be the license of the merged architecture, if we ever get to that point.
And there won't be any problem, since because it will be toolkit agnostic, it won't need to link to neither gtk nor qt
In short, the best example (which is in the article), is being able to use the konqueror html display engine in nautilus -or any other gnome app for that matter- such is the beauty of components programming.
Nope, it was 1280x1024
See http://www.ti.com/dlp/pr oducts/cinema/specs_dinosaur.shtml
Just yesterday I took the time to watch the the video of the Crusoe presentation. One of the key points they stressed is that an internet appliance must have plugin compatibility, and they are able to offer that since you are actually running a PC in disguise.
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You don't need to develop new software, just use plain vanilla netscape and plugins, either for Win32 or Linux.
You have the videos available either in
http://www.transmeta.com/news
or
http://www.z dnet.com/zdtv/zdtvnews/features/story/0,3685,2119