From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Feb 22 15:17:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from bbcc.ctc.edu (bbcc.ctc.edu [134.39.180.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3698111816 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:17:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@bbcc.ctc.edu) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by bbcc.ctc.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA11413; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:10:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:10:24 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Coleman To: Robert Watson Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gateway Computers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I My gateway contact wants to send FreeBSD an Eval computer for certification. What Gateway configuration would you be looking for? -Chris On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Robert Watson wrote: > > I emailed three computer companies: Gateway, Dell and Micron, asking for a > quote for a developer machine. I described essentially a high-end PC > workstation-class machine, and on the list of requirements was FreeBSD. I > heard back from none of the companies. One of them, I know that the email > was read because I received a CC of an email asking someone to address my > needs, not that they were ever addressed. > > I must admit, I was hoping for at least a *rejection*... As I'm looking > to buy a machine or two in about 5 months, I figured I'd start asking > around now to drum up support, but things don't look great. > > If someone digs up contacts for these kinds of things, I'd be glad to call > them in my effort to find some workstations. > > On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Chris Coleman wrote: > > > I just spoke with my contacts at gateway. We are one of their major > > accounts, so they do take some notice of us. I asked them about shipping > > computers with FreeBSD installed, instead of WinNT. My contact is going > > to look up the person in the engineering department that I would need to > > send "Evaluation Copies" of FreeBSD to. > > > > (Jordan, I might need some FreeBSD CD's soon :-) > > > > She said that she hasn't had any demand for alternative OS's and didn't > > see it on their immediate software road map. > > > > Well, it looks like it is time to generate some demand, or at least some > > notice. > > > > You might suggest to your contacts at Gateway, (if you don't have any, > > make some) that it would be really great if they would ship their web > > servers with FreeBSD. > > > > Or, suggest that you would like to see "FreeBSD Certified" on their web > > pages. > > > > Since Dell is offering Linux, its probably a good time to focus on Gateway > > to get them to offer FreeBSD. > > > > -Chris > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > > > > Robert N Watson > > robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ > PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C > > Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ > TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ > SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message