Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
On 5/31/06, *James C. McPherson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
...
> Hence the reason I don't believe Sun has EVER talked to Adobe
over this
> Acrobat issue - honestly, how many companies would turn down free
money?
> I mean, if Scott turned up at your door step, paid you $10million in
> cash, and all you had to do was port an application or write a driver
> for Solaris x86, would you turn down the money? of course not; free
> money! more customers! geeze, its a gravy training rolling past
the door.
> Hence the reason I find its an issue of Sun refusing to do something
> rather than an issue of 'well, we've tried, and they still refuse".
Just because you don't believe it, doesn't therefore mean that it
hasn't happened.
Oh pulease, this is commonsense stuff; Adobe is like any other business,
they worship the almighty dollar, and it is basically a lie to say that
they would have turned down cold hard cash for the porting of Acrobat to
Solaris x86.
Matty, you do *not* know, you were not party to any discussion that took
place. Don't make assumptions.
....
Given Solaris x86 miniscule marketshare, the only option open for Sun at
the moment is payment of porting. Given that they neither announce their
intensions, or promote the idea of 'cash for porting' through the usual
PR channels, it speaks volumes for the lack there of, of passion that
Sun has for its products and growing its marketshare.
Funnily enough, there's more than one way to get applications ported
to an OS. Also, funnily, there's this concept of "commercial-in-confidence"
that companies tend to adopt, whether they like Open Source software or
they don't. That means that not everything you see and hear is the whole
story regarding something. Perhaps you could keep that in mind before
making more "oh, it's so obvious that X is lying because Y and Z..."
comments.
James C. McPherson
--
Solaris Datapath Engineering
Data Management Group
Sun Microsystems
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