Re: GNUstep: about GNUstep

[SW Development]

Dear GNUstep Developers

I am very interested in porting a very large control system used for 
process automation in the area of biotechnology to GNUstep.  I am a 
longtime NeXT user (have my own NeXTstation), was a Rhapsody developer 
(on Intel), and am currently using Mac OS X Server 10.1.3 for my daily 
activities.  I saw the potential of NeXTstep/OPENSTEP back in 1991 and 
have been determined to use this technology ever since.  I am equally 
convinced that the Mac is a great system however I have restrictions 
regarding the types of hardware (e.g. remote terminals) that I can 
install in a factory-floor/industrial type of environment at this time.  
Furthermore, I would like to provide our system as open source to every 
university in the world that develops fermentation technology in their 
biology studies.

I recently ported our process control system from Hewlett Packard's 
HP-RT (realtime UNIX based on LynxOS) to Solaris 8 on the SPARC 
platform.   The next step (no pun intended) is to migrate to 
GNUstep/OPENSTEP.  I do not have a lot of time to waste and would 
appreciate it if anyone can give me some tips or other information about 
GNUstep on Solaris 8.  I tried install it about six months ago and was 
paritally successful, however it wasn't stable and I am still not 
explicitly sure if there are any major limitations that I have to 
consider today.

Can you please help me or indicate to me if any of my efforts are worth 
my while.  Thank you very much and thank you for GNUstep!

Best regards,

Chris Beaham
Manager Software Development & Engineering
chris.beaham@pcs-ag.com
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