<html>stefan matthias aust <sm-@3plus4.de> wrote:
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/self-interest/?start=395
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> At OOPSLA, I heard the rumor that there's a company actually
interested in
> porting SELF for Windows and/or Linux.
Hi,
as you know ;-) it is not only a rumor. We are interested in a Self
port to Linux (in the moment not Win NT). We want to have a closer look
at Self. We are currently looking for a language and development
environment that we can use to write an "ideal" multiuser ide. There
are a lot of things in Self that makes quite interesting for us. So
right now we try to find out what we must do to evaluate Self. Maybe it
is cheaper to port it to Linux instead of buy a lot of new machines. If
everything works fine we will invest some money in our Self
development, but this is not sure now.
We will have a lot of work to do before we can be sure that Self is the
right language for our plans. For example our lawyer will contact Sun
(in person David and his chief) to find out, if there are some foot
traps for us in the license or not. And BTW there are also a lot of
technical questions and we must find answers for this stuff....
so we will see
cu
Thorsten Dittmar</html>