On Sunday, September 13, 2015, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) < drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote:
> A ticket I opened years ago about a problem on AIX, got closed recently. > It got me thinking about something whose usefulness could well extend > beyond one issue building Sage on AIX. > > I gather William is having problems getting funding from NSF and similar > places. I wonder if it's time to look at this a different way. Based on > things in the past > > 1) Sun sponsored a port to Solaris, and paid the salary of someone. > You are misremembering slightly. Sun didn't give us a penny and definitely didn't fund Michael Abshoff to work on the port. Sun gave UW one computer and some publicity, then a few months later they got bought buy oracle and all education outreach went silent. > Unfortunately the computer they donated (t2) was not suited to the task, > but that is irrelevant now. We did eventually get Sage ported to Solaris. > > 2) Someone from IBM contacted William some time ago an IBM funded port to > AIX. I got involved, as I did have an AIX box, but nothing ever came of it. > We exchanged emails back and forth for a while which got my hopes up temporarily but it was very clear there would be $0 support there. > I am realistic, and don't expect many Sage developers to care less about > AIX, although I think there is at least one other that will do. IBM do have > some nice hardware. > > But how about contacting manufacturers of other devices, to sponsor either > a full Sage port, or a subset of Sage. > > Some that come to mind are > > i) Nokia > ii) Samsung > iii) Apple > iv) Microsoft > v) Oracle, with their own flavor of Linux. > vi) Cray - obviously concentrating on parallel processing > > Then there's the possibility of a mobiles apps for Android and Apple > phones that have a subset of functionality without internet access, and > better access with internet access. > > > > Dr. David Kirkby Ph.D CEng MIET > Kirkby Microwave Ltd > Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Essex, CM3 > 6DT, UK. > Registered in England and Wales, company number 08914892. > http://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/ > Tel: 07910 441670 / +44 7910 441670 (0900 to 2100 GMT only please) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sage-devel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > . > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sage-devel@googlegroups.com');>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from my massive iPhone 6 plus. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
