There are thousands of devices shipped with Microsoft Windows CE prior to version 4 (.NET). For these devices MS never offered patches even if these versions had lots of bugs, nor even standard C libraries (thank God there is wcecompat). And there are lot of projects that reached 10+ years (with workarounds, of course), and still in production. I don't think the risk of using Plan 9 is greather than the risk assumend by those who developed with WCE prior to 4.
Dorin On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Adriano Verardo<a.vera...@tecmav.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > As a professional user I think that Plan9 could be better than *nix for a > large class of industrial - not time critical - applications but in Italy > nobody > use it, except of no more than a dozen of fans. The University doesn't know > it at all. > Of course, this is what I see. I would be happy if the picture were > different. > > Speaking with my clients I see that almost all appreciate Plan9. But, even > if some > of them defined it "fascinating", the common sense is that, without > guarantees about > its longevity, it could be a wrong choice. > > How can I reply to this objection ? > > Reading the thread about plan9.bell-lab.com I understand that Bell Labs > are no more directly committed in the project. Is it correct ? > > Adriano > >
