Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
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> 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.
What Sun wants are millions of developers to port to Solaris x86 out of the goodness of their own heart - newsflash, the world doens't work that way, people port when either they see the possibility of cash rolling in, or when the CEO pays a visit to pay for the porting.
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.
Matty
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