Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 08:54:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open source rules! Message-ID: <19980729085427.X716@freebie.lemis.com>
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Take a look at this stuff. It's interesting because the result of SunWorld's open source survey give us the first factually based comparison between FreeBSD and Linux that I have seen. Bottom line: FreeBSD has approximately 25% of the penetration of Linux (and added together they account for 80% of business and 95% of home users). Greg ----- Forwarded message from SunWorld Editor-in-Chief <SunWorld@emailch.com> ----- > To: grog@lemis.com > Date: Tue, 28 Jul 98 13:03:07 EST > > SunWorld: IDG's magazine for the Sun community > http://www.sunworld.com > > > July 28, 1998 > > Dear SunWorld Subscriber: > > The results of our wildly popular open source reader survey are now > up, and you may want to show them to your manager. They show that > the idea that large corporations won't run free software is largely > a myth. Open source code is being used in almost every imaginable > work environment: small business, the enterprise, NT shops, > Solaris. Find out what more than 4,000 SunWorld readers had to say > about what open source software means to them. > > http://www.sunworld.com/swol-07-1998/swol-07-readersurvey.html?072898a > > Solaris is getting easier to install and easier to write > applications for thanks to work that Sun and InstallShield are doing > together. Tomorrow the two companies will announce Solaris > enhancements to Installshield's Java development tool. > > http://www.sunworld.com/swol-07-1998/swol-07-installshield.html?072898a > > The SANS (System Administration Networking and Security) Institute > has placed a new set of intrusion detection tools in the public > domain. Shadow, as the tools are called, is already monitoring more > than 40 known attack profiles in incoming network traffic for more > than 14,000 hosts. > > http://www.sunworld.com/swol-07-1998/swol-07-sans.html?072898a > > Speaking of SANS, be sure you haven't missed Peter Galvin's > excellent little wrap-up of the recent SANS '98 conference in his > current Security column. > > http://www.sunworld.com/swol-07-1998/swol-07-security.html?072898a > > In Eye on the Competition, Linux is making more waves with Oracle, > Informix, and Netscape all announcing their porting intentions last > week. Also read about HP and Intel's standards-based net management > initiative for controlling bandwidth, security, virtual private > networks, and other network services. > > http://www.sunworld.com/swol-07-1998/swol-07-eyeoncomp.html?072898a > > The Internet in outer space? Vinton Cerf says it's not as > far-fetched and far off as you might think. He says the U.S. > government is working on a satellite device that will act as an > Internet gateway, and it will be left behind on the next mission to > Mars. Go to The Internet Files. > > http://www.sunworld.com/swol-07-1998/swol-07-if.html?072898a > > Take another peek at our Table of Contents before the month runs > out! > > > Best regards, > Carolyn Wong > Editor-in-Chief > SunWorld > http://www.sunworld.com > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > To stop receiving such messages, send email to swunsub@emailch.com > with a subject field of: > > UNSUB sunworld grog@lemis.com sw1143 > > Questions? Email sunworld@emailch.com > > Distribution, database maintenance and response management > by The Email Channel, Inc. For more information, send e-mail > to info@emailch.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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