FreeBSD Embedded in 3rd Party Applications and Appliances?

[Pervaiz Choudhry]

Thanks Tom,

We are actually working with IronPort. I was just trying to get a  
feel for broader vendor support. We are all set now. Thanks,


cheers,

~ pervaiz
415-215-6530



On Aug 14, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Tom Grove wrote:

> Pervaiz Choudhry wrote:
>> Well put. Thanks,
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> ~ pervaiz
>> 415-215-6530
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 14, 2007, at 7:25 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
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