From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 29 01:47:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA18275 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 01:47:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MediaCity.com (root@easy1.mediacity.com [205.216.172.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA18270 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 01:47:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brian@localhost) by MediaCity.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id BAA11696 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 01:46:04 -0700 From: Brian Litzinger Message-Id: <199606290846.BAA11696@MediaCity.com> Subject: Internet Servicer Acquired for Indicated $1.6 Million To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 01:46:04 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: brian@MediaCity.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk --- Begin excerpt from WSJ --- The Wall Street Journal Tuesday, June 25, 1996 SoftNet Systems Inc. (AMEX:SOF), a provider of electronic-information management systems for business customers, said it acquired MediaCity World Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif., Internet Service Provider... the transaction had an indicated value of $1.6 million... --- End of excerpt from WSJ --- MediaCity was built almost entirely on machines running FreeBSD. The routers ran FreeBSD and primarily used Emerging Technologies T1 cards, except for one which was still running BSDI 1.0 because no one had had the time to upgrade it to FreeBSD. The other servers were all FreeBSD based. You may find it interesting that we had originally started out with BSDI as our basic platform, but found the support so completely lacking that we switched to FreeBSD. Thanks for the world's finest OS. -- Brian Litzinger Powered by FreeBSD http[s]://www.mpress.com