From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Subject: [TUHS] Do Interface specifications such POSIX or the LSB Still Matter
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 10:19:37 -0500 [thread overview]
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 5:45 PM, David Arnold <davida at pobox.com> wrote:
> is there really still a market for commercially-licensed installable
> software packages? The set of things that cannot be delivered via the web,
> and are not available as Free/Open Source is ever-shrinking.
>
I agree with the later, but for the folks that have traditionally made a
market in the former (think commercial HPC - geo science, mech-e cad,
financial, chemistry, etc..) - they have codes [often in Fortran] and years
and year of data that those codes have been used to create an validate.
Ever-shrinking is right, but those folks have very valuable (billions of
dollars) invested in that data and their businesses behind them. The code
they use is proprietary and closed.
As I said in another message, the test matrix for the folks that develop
that code got unwieldy.
Containers is the only alternative I have seen so far that might solve
this, but .... that same folks don't like no stinking OS between their app
and the HW, so using virtualization technology to solve a problem is
usually a no-no.
Thanks again,
Clem
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-14 20:53 Clem Cole
2018-02-14 22:13 ` George Michaelson
2018-02-16 15:12 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-14 22:45 ` David Arnold
2018-02-16 15:19 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2018-02-16 15:45 ` Larry McVoy
2018-02-16 18:36 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-18 1:01 ` Larry McVoy
2018-02-19 15:01 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-16 18:48 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-02-16 11:28 ` arnold
2018-02-16 15:03 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-16 16:08 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
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