On 13 September 2015 at 18:31, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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. > OK, I was mistaken. It is a long time ago - back in 2009 we got t2.math I think. > > > >> 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. > Agreed, the AIX interested from someone at IBM did go anywhere. But that does not mean that an approach to other hardware/software vendors would fail. If funding has dried up from research grants, perhaps another approach is needed. Dave -- 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.
