From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 1 17:26:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA06729 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 17:26:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA06724 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 17:26:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA00307; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 17:26:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199701020126.RAA00307@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Michael Smith cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD into larget corp. environment? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jan 1997 10:21:24 +1030." <199701012351.KAA14264@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 17:26:03 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If they are a big corporation they can hire a couple of programmers for the OS support. Is just that people have to get used to the notion that they can have control over their OS 8) Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Michael Smith : > > There's a certain large (multinational) corporate with some not > inconsiderable ground-level enthusiasm for using FreeBSD in preference > to other less robust, open and harder to maintain/fix operating > systems for internal network and security applications. > > However, like most such entities, management feel that because there's > no tangible corporate entity ("somebody to sue if it goes wrong") > behind FreeBSD, they can't possibly trust it. (Yes, I think they're > stupid too.) > > Anyway, bottom line is: is there anyone in Australia currently offering > paid commercial support (like Cygnus in the USA) for FreeBSD, or > planning to in the short-term future? > > (I won't do any naming of names just yet, but suffice to say that the > corporate in question is _big_ - they counter the argument "you never > get bugfixes out of Microsoft" with "we do when we lean on them". > Their internal intranet is undergoing explosive growth right now, and > it would be an excellent win for both sides if something could be done > here.) > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ > ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[