Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 10:25:41 -0800 From: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: List of big names ... Message-ID: <3DEA5425.4050007@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20021201023429.G6214-100000@hub.org> References: <20021201023429.G6214-100000@hub.org>
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Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Other then that I know Yahoo! uses FreeBSD ... is there a list > that anyone is maintain about who is using it? I've been > having discussions with a partner for awhile now about whether > we should launch a product with a base OS of linux vs freebsd > ... and its tiring to try and argue against "but, nobody is > accepting FreeBSD ... everyone (IBM, HP, Sun, etc) is falling > behind Linux" ... > Apple seems to think pretty highly of FreeBSD. And there are the oft-repeated rumors that WinNT/2000/XP all use the BSD TCP stack. Having used both, I would never choose Linux over FreeBSD. > Do we have *anything* ... case studies or the like, from big > names that have decided *for* FreeBSD over Linux, with a sort > of 'why' discusion? > F5 Systems based their load balancers/switches on BSD and a follow-on company started by one of the founders (Ahaza Systems, now defunct) was going to build IPv6-aware switching gear based on FreeBSD. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/>; She missed an invaluable opportunity to give him a look that you could have poured on a waffle ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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