FreeBSD Embedded in 3rd Party Applications and Appliances?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Pervaiz Choudhry <pervaiz at splunk.com> writes:

> We are trying determine cost and benefits  of supporting  FreeBSD
> platform for OEM market.  Does any one have data on the installbase
> for FreeBSD "Embedded" in 3rd party applications and appliances?  We
> are looking for ball park numbers.

There is no requirement to tell anyone else that you're using FreeBSD
in a product, so some people don't.  As a result, I would be highly
suspicious of any numbers anyone *could* come up with (I would expect
such numbers to miss a lot of applications).

A better approach in my opinion would be to look at specific use
cases; the FreeBSD web site includes some information of that sort.
One example not listed there is that Juniper Networks routers control
plane ("JunOS", I think) is based on FreeBSD.

Good luck.