We need to start getting together to help our fellow man (or woman). I encourage all of you to mirror his site to prevent any injustice of permenant removal. I have just finished downloading it. Should the time come, I will post it.
That's because Malda and his crew are a bunch of script kiddies and not sysadmins. They are a company now getting paid to do this shit. The least they could do is hire a sysadmin to keep it altogether. No offense by the term scrip kiddies to Malda et al but they are perl hackers - I love what they do! Maybe ask on Ask Slashdot on how to run reliable servers;)
Our company plans on writing drivers for U.are.U's digitalPersona. It's a USB device, so guess what else has to work before that. We don't expect to begin until July (but it shouldn't take too long).
1. It's something they are going to do eventually anyway.
2. It's not something that's going to cost them a lot of money to do. From what I've seen, it looks as if it was built with portability in mind. And, there are already unix versions so more than likely it's a matter of tweaking and typing make.
3. I've talked with PTC consultants and they are fully aware of Linux and say that everyone asks them about Linux ports. I think this poll is to try to get more people out of the woodwork.
4. It will benefit them and Linux as a whole. They will sell more because going with them and Linux is so much more cost effective. And, Linux will benefit by seeing more hardware accel vendor support.
Personally, I think they are going to port regardless of what the poll says simply because the consultants get asked all the time about Linux ports. And it's also a "first to market" thing.
PTC works closely with 3D hardware vendors for support. Hopefully, if PTC ports to linux (which would probably mean typing "make"), then they would be in a position to persuade Elsa to do the same. PTC is huge. They would be key to have on our side.;)
They probably wouldn't have a poll unless there was atleast some demand for it already. And, it would be quite simple since there are unix ports of it. All that's left is hardware support.
Also, if you consider what you said, that these licenses cost so much money, I'm sure companies would love to save where they can. When you get a job at one of these places that use PRO/E, you'll see that they try to save money where they can. I'm sure if they could save atleast $300/machine just by cancelling NT, they would.
Somewhere in there it mentions how they had Microsoft-guided expertise helping them do some low-level IRQ tuning. I bet they never tuned the Linux kernel at all. Hmm..
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We need to start getting together to help our fellow man (or woman). I encourage all of you to mirror his site to prevent any injustice of permenant removal. I have just finished downloading it. Should the time come, I will post it.
That's because Malda and his crew are a bunch of script kiddies and not sysadmins. They are a company now getting paid to do this shit. The least they could do is hire a sysadmin to keep it altogether. No offense by the term scrip kiddies to Malda et al but they are perl hackers - I love what they do! Maybe ask on Ask Slashdot on how to run reliable servers ;)
Our company plans on writing drivers for U.are.U's
digitalPersona. It's a USB device, so guess what
else has to work before that. We don't expect to
begin until July (but it shouldn't take too long).
1. It's something they are going to do eventually anyway.
2. It's not something that's going to cost them
a lot of money to do. From what I've seen, it
looks as if it was built with portability in mind.
And, there are already unix versions so more than
likely it's a matter of tweaking and typing make.
3. I've talked with PTC consultants and they are
fully aware of Linux and say that everyone asks
them about Linux ports. I think this poll is to
try to get more people out of the woodwork.
4. It will benefit them and Linux as a whole. They
will sell more because going with them and Linux
is so much more cost effective. And, Linux will
benefit by seeing more hardware accel vendor support.
Personally, I think they are going to port regardless of what the poll says simply because the consultants get asked all the time about Linux ports. And it's also a "first to market" thing.
PTC works closely with 3D hardware vendors for support. ;)
Hopefully, if PTC ports to linux (which would probably mean typing "make"), then they would
be in a position to persuade Elsa to do the same.
PTC is huge. They would be key to have on our side.
They probably wouldn't have a poll unless there
was atleast some demand for it already. And, it would be quite simple since there are unix ports
of it. All that's left is hardware support.
Also, if you consider what you said, that these licenses cost so much money, I'm sure companies
would love to save where they can. When you get
a job at one of these places that use PRO/E,
you'll see that they try to save money where
they can. I'm sure if they could save atleast $300/machine just by cancelling NT, they would.
Why not write your own report? Do a little research, show your references. Like back in high school. Or don't they do that any more?
Somewhere in there it mentions how they had Microsoft-guided expertise helping them do some low-level IRQ tuning. I bet they never tuned the Linux kernel at all. Hmm..