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Let's skip the blogspam: http://wiki.openpicus.com/index.php?title=IKEA_RGB_Led_Strip...

Legitimate question.

Not many do. There are quite a few things I build myself if I really really want to use it. A lot of the time it isn't worth it.

I would totally be using MongoDB for some projects (it fits the bill -perfectly-), but my resources for those are usually limited to Solaris on SPARC.

I do have an x86 desktop with Linux as my main PC at work, so I don't miss out on all the fun completely.

However, I do mostly sysadmin stuff, so a lot of the things I use come in the form of scripts, so it's often cross-platform.

Though I do come across some install scripts that just blatantly assume that everything is running Bash on Linux. Those are fun.

I have very little expectation that the MongoDB team will ever push a non x86 version. They do a lot of optimisations deep inside that rely on architecture specific things. But one can hope :)

Ricaparon MongoDB 2.2.0 Released

Still no support for Solaris on SPARC! :(

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I would argue that #3 would be one I'd like to have blocked. I've never had a situation where those "Hey! Wanna chat with a salesperson!?" boxes isn't annoying.

Ricaparon With $42M more, 10gen wants to take MongoDB mainstream

I'd really love to be using MongoDB... but we're a Solaris on Sparc and IBM on Power shop. No support for either one of these, sadly.