From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 14 10: 7:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from main-sd1.artnetonline.com (m0-hh-acr.artnetonline.com [195.90.219.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3F8914F78 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:07:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kuehl@lgk.de) Received: from di-036.hamburg.dialin-gw.net (di-036.hamburg.dialin-gw.net [195.90.225.36]) by main-sd1.artnetonline.com (NTMail 3.03.0013/1.abqk) with ESMTP id na930813 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:04:17 +0200 Content-Length: 1736 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:05:44 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: kuehl@lgk.de From: kuehl@lgk.de To: paul@originative.co.uk Subject: RE: More of my totally ineffective PR efforts in action. :-) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 14-Apr-99 paul@originative.co.uk wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jordan K. Hubbard [mailto:jkh@zippy.cdrom.com] >> Sent: 14 April 1999 07:16 >> To: advocacy@freebsd.org >> Cc: chat@freebsd.org >> Subject: More of my totally ineffective PR efforts in action. :-) >> >> >> http://www.internetworld.com/print/current/webdev/19990412-fre >> ebsd.html > > I don't think we should pigeon-hole ourselves as a server only OS. With the > performance of hardware these days the distinction is not very distinct. > > One of the reasons NT gets chosen in companies is familiarity with the > environment from the desktop. > > Inside the project it's fair enough to focus the direction on producing the > best server platform we can but since that drives the quality of the OS up > it makes it a good desktop box as well. Publically I think we should make > more universal claims as to what FreeBSD is useful for. No. It is a splendid marketting goal, because 1. it defines a clear direction. 2. there are many people out who'd be very keen on having a real Server OS on their desktop boxes. 3. this way FreeBSD does not appear to be threatening established user environments. > We don't genuinely believe that Linux or NT are better desktop boxes do we? We do genuinely believe that FreeBSD is a better Server OS than Linux and NT are, don't we? My deep respect for this well-aimed PR effort! Lars /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Lars Gerhard Kuehl Phone: +49 40 54768010 Mobile: +49 171 9307085 Fax : +49 40 54768012 Email : kuehl@lgk.de #ifdef is your friend, and everyone's else enemy #endif /* is your friend */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message