From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 2 02:35:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3759616A4DA for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 02:35:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C032B43D49 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 02:35:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C72A290C46; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:35:52 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 66558-05; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:35:58 -0300 (ADT) Received: by hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1046) id 667EC291987; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:15:51 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B429290C98; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:15:51 -0300 (ADT) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:15:51 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: freebsd@hub.org To: Dirk Meyer In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060901231510.I82634@hub.org> References: <20060820154624.51391ddf@localhost> <20060820180109.23C422395F@outbound.sentinare.net> <20060820154624.51391ddf@localhost> <20060824181710.GA36711@gothmog.pc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ask for FreeBSD support here! Let's join forces! X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:35:59 -0000 On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas schrieb:, > >> I'm probably stating the blatantly obvious, but the trick is how we can >> convince them that FreeBSD is a "common OS", I guess :) > > Not an easy task, 60% of all companies I talked too > had problems to get int installed on an used hardware. 'k, I'd be interested in knowing exactly what problems they had ... was it hardware, or ease of install?