From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Stephen King Message-ID: <3B5606CE.13D49A4@bconnex.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] commercial deployment Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:24:33 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d0d5b93c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I like plan9 philosophy very much (being something of a minimalist myself) but I must ask (hoping it's not been asked a thousand times before): Is there or will there ever be commercial/industrial deployment of plan9? I imagine distributed very-large-set processing as a viable commercial application but will that ever really happen? You opinion is welcomed, flames to /dev/null ... -- "I think my life is fuller because I realize that I don't know what I'm doing" - Richard Feynman, 1979.