Rumour Mill on FreeBSD Death Still ....

Matt Olander matt at offmyserver.com
Sat Sep 27 19:15:35 PDT 2003


On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 06:40:41PM -0700, Linh Pham wrote:
> # BTW I'm quite tired of "Yahoo! runs FreeBSD" advocacy. Few years ago, when
> # it was the only dot-com, it was obvious, that it is a point for FreeBSD...
> # but now? I think it's quite pointless.
> 
> I agree, it is a bit aged of a statement now. I listed Yahoo! first
> because it's a recognizable name... else we need to have a much better
> list of "clients" :D

well, we've used the yahoo example many times and I'm more than willing
to keep beating it into the ground to convince enterprise level
customers that other enterprise level companies believe that freebsd is
suitable for the enterprise.

the more revenue generating businesses that you can show to an IT
manager, the better the chances ;)

also, nice page Linh!

-matt

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