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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:07:01 +1100
From:      Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>
To:        Peter Lee <P.Lee@sunrise.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD showcase in ITExpo 2000 in Australia"?
Message-ID:  <00031609110704.00323@freebsd.freebsd.org>
References:  <9E60304A5CE2D211ADF80008C728CE7198A35B@S_SVNT4_EXCH01>

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Yes I know,
Definety have to educate the vendor community and end users.

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Peter Lee wrote:
> I was very surprised to see any FreeBSD at all.  When I noted the FreeBSD
> boxes at the Netmax counter, the guy looked really sheepish and said "sorry,
> we didn't have any of the Linux variety boxes when we were setting up the
> stand so we had to put up FreeBSD version boxes instead".  It appears as
> though we need to educate the vendor community just as much, if not more,
> than the end-users.
> 
> I agree with you, it was quite disappointing to see so much hoopla over
> Linux and nothing over FreeBSD.  I felt like dragging my notebook out and
> setting up my own FreeBSD stand next to the guys handing out the free Linux
> t-shirts.
> 
> Speaking of which, didn't I cop it when I wore that shirt around here - I
> work for a Microsoft partner ;-)
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Danny [mailto:dannyh@idx.com.au]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 15 March 2000 9:47 AM
> > To: Greg Lehey; Rafael Gomez
> > Cc: FreeBSD Questions
> > Subject: FreeBSD showcase in ITExpo 2000 in Australia"?
> > 
> > 
> > - Went to the IT Expo and found out there was :-
> > 
> > 1 copy of FreeBSD 3.4 and 4 copies of NetMax Fileservers for 
> > FreeBSD the others
> > are Turbo Linux, Corel Linux, SGI Linux., RedHat Linux
> > 
> > - In my University
> > 
> > 2 IT students using FreeBSD and 1/3 of the final year IT 
> > students use Linux
> > RedHat
> > 
> > Not much people are aware of BSD
> > 
> >  I suggest to promote FreeBSD in Australia and around the 
> > world what we should
> > try and do is get: -
> > 
> > Have FreeBSD showcases at the ITExpos in Australia and around 
> > the world to
> > promote FreeBSD.
> > 
> > Looking forward to yuour feedback.
> > 
> > dannyh
> > 
> > dannyh@idx.com.au
> > 
> > 
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