Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:20:38 -0400 From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Goodnight Whistle? Message-ID: <19990820132038.A13996@netmonger.net>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I just received the notice that Whistle has discontinued the majority of its product line due to (among other things) "higher than expected demand", and "Whistle's aquisition by IBM". I wonder what will become of this FreeBSD "success story". Personally I think it was a mistake to continue selling a 486 with 8MB RAM, a 1GB hard drive, and a 28.8 modem for $2000. Particularly since there were no major technological improvements to the product since it was introduced. The last major upgrade seemed almost entirely cosmetic. Unfortunately, it's proprietary, so with Whistle no longer working on it there's no possibility of fixing/improving it ourselves. I think I'm going to start looking for a similar hardware platform to develop something similar. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood, since this seems to have been EOL week for ISP equipment. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19990820132038.A13996>