From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 14 17:38:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F4E14D18 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:38:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from bb-b1-11a (ppp91.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.91]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA25265; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:34:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:34:30 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell To: Davis Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD PR In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I am not certain of a good way to accomplish this, but I think an > excellent way to start is to aim at college students (in much the way that > Microsoft is). Currently, many of my peers are completely unaware of How about starting local user groups? :) I'm doing it.... Take a clue from the Linux people, have local install-a-thons... I have one tentavily scheduled in July... Expound upon the abilities of FreeBSD to anyone who will listen. Again, follow the lead of the Linux people, put FreeBSD boxes in your IS department to take over mission critical applications. At my current job I'm working on not only moving our servers from Novell/NT to FreeBSD, BUT I'm working on porting our industry specific software from Win95/98/DOS to FreeBSD.... Which will add another selling point to our software and give us increased compatibility... :) Luckily my bosses are of the 'do what you want, just as long as it dosen't cost us money' mentallity. :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message