Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 14:26:41 -0400 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg1+@pitt.edu> To: Freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: corporate announcement Message-ID: <3ACCB8E1.8B9D1014@pitt.edu> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010405133942.40955E-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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(All of this IMHO)
When you think of it from a business point of view, what has happened
is really interesting. Who would've imagined that what was known as
Walnut Creek CDROM would end up being owned by a company like Wind
River !
The first conference left me a mixed taste: on one hand, it seems like
WR bought BSDi specifically for FreeBSD, OTOH it seems like they are
only interested in complementing their existing technologies with
FreeBSD, not really opening their other stuff. I dunno, I guess I'll
take a look at the second conference for hints on what will happen.
One thing I do wonder is if FreeBSD will target the embedded and
realtime markets in a near future. Is the slogan still "The Power to
Serve" ?
Actually NetBSD has the embedded market pretty much covered
up...OpenBSD might get a piece of the realtime market if RTMX finds
it's way through..so maybe we should all just merge! ;)
cheers,
Pedro.
Robert Watson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Johann Visagie wrote:
>
> > Robert Watson on 2001-04-04 (Wed) at 18:53:07 -0400:
> > >
> > > I actually see the acquisition as an important opportunity for
> > > positive change: many of the unreached goals of BSDi become far more
> > > reachable with the help of a large, technically savvy yet financially
> > > stable company like WR.
> >
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