On 2007-Nov-12, at 16:52 , erik quanstrom wrote:
wow! if they'd never taken the c compiler out of solaris,
do you think gcc would have gotten where it did?
Nope, GCC would have died a well-deserved death.
I was so pissed off at Sun for doing this (and the follow-on effect as
all the other vendors got greedy) that I never again bought any
hardware or software from them. And this did result in them not
winning a $500K+ bid that they otherwise would probably have won.
Now that they've come to their senses, I've just signed off to buy a
pair of 4200 servers :-)
--lyndon
