From powens@gate.ccta.gov.uk Fri May 26 09:11:08 1995 Received: from gate.ccta.gov.uk by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA08559 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Fri, 26 May 1995 10:11:46 +0200 Received: from @mail (powens) by gate.ccta.gov.uk Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 09:11:08 +0000 Message-Id: <9505260911.AA20560@gate.ccta.gov.uk> X-Sender: powens@mail X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: sc22wg15@dkuug.dk From: powens@gate.ccta.gov.uk (Peter Owens) Subject: Re: (wg15-uk 751) (SC22WG15.528) Re: Application compliance testing Content-Length: 1521 X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 >To: glens@fultech.com (Glen Seeds) >From: powens@ccta.gov.uk (Peter Owens) >Subject: Re: (wg15-uk 751) (SC22WG15.528) Re: Application compliance testing >Cc: nhopkins@ccta.gov.uk > >On the contrary in our letter we cite the reluctance of Independent Software Vendors to openly state that they support POSIX as one of the major reasons that we are re assessing our advice. > >The support of system vendors is a done deal. Our customers have a huge collection of POSIX compliant platforms from different system vendors. Independent Software vendors are the key players in this field, what they choose to support for business reasons is ultimately what will survive. Unfortunately they dont seem to regard the support of POSIX as a high priority. > >If the existence of Compliance testing suites makes a difference to the situation then fine, but we are sceptical. > >>Re: Twente minutes >> 6.2 CCTA letter on 'The Future of POSIX' [TT05] >> >>Discussion on this item considers only end users and >>system vendors, and thereby misses a significant point: >> >>Application vendors that want to take advantage of POSIX >>to enable support for a wider selection of host platforms >>would benefit from the existence of a POSIX Application >>Compliance Test Suite. My company would almost certainly >>be willing to pay for such a suite. >> >> /glen >> >>Glen Seeds >>Fulcrum Technologies inc. >>785 Carling Ave. >>Ottawa, Ont. K1S 5H4 >>CANADA >>Phone: (613) 238-1761 >>Usenet: glens@fultech.com >> >> >