freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Jim Durham
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 11:04 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Cc: list at mindling.com
> Subject: Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?
> 
> 
> I guess I would have to say that the niche I am talking about 
> is supporting 
> applications of a corporate/business nature on FreeBSD. 
> 

One big problem with this is that still, the majority of software
business apps are commercial packages, and the vendors of those
packages release their apps for platforms that they consider to
help them sell their software.

The Oracle story is a good example.  Back in 1999-2000, Oracle
actually completed a port of Oracle to FreeBSD.  But they never
released it, deciding that there was not enough market for
it.  Later they released it for Linux, but still, even today, many
companies that sell Oracle-related software still don't have
Linux ports.

Naturally, a lot of software that isn't really a corporate business
application (like a web server) is used by business and by
corporations.  But that is already covered plenty elsewhere.

Ted