Re: Information on Bruker Software Solutions for WINDOWS PC
Kurt Wollenberg (kfw@lubrizol.com)
Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:52:05 -0700
Graham Barlow wrote:
>
> I hope Jack Miller doesn't mind me quoting a line from a private mail from him
> to me but I would like to stir this discussion a little more, and ask why we
> don't have cross platform development of WinNMR to SGI?... see below (or does
> Bruker believe SGI are on their way out too ;-)) .
>
> On Jun 19, 11:43am, Jack Martin Miller wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Information on Bruker Software Solutions for WINDOWS PC
> > >If this were to happen it should not be at the expense of the continued
> > >development of the PC product.
> > Non necessarily if they used a good cross platform development environment.
> >-- End of excerpt from Jack Martin Miller
>
> True for a new product - could even be platform independent such as Java (but I
> don't really want to open that can of worms). Porting an existing product as
> complex as WinNMR to a new multi-platform environment could be time consuming;
> but if was done we might see WinNMR running Native on an SGI and Bruker could
> abandon development of XWINPLOT.
>
> Graham
>
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> [ Dr. Graham Barlow, NMR Service Manager - gkb1@york.ac.uk ]
> [ Chemistry Dept. U of York, York, YO15DD. UK | Tel: 01904 432506 ]
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It seems to me that this was done some time ago with a product called
Uxnmr/p with Beat Meier of Spectrospin leading the effort. I believe
that the Xedplot module was ported from Uxnmr/P to Uxnmr and later to
Xwinnmr. My understanding was that Uxnmr/P was the portable Unix version
of WinNMR which ran on the PC platform.
Personally, I would be all for WinNMR running native an SGI but I'm sure
that there are some politics involved (as was the case with killing
Uxnmr/P) in doing something like this?
Kurt
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