From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 5 11:25:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F98D37B443 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:25:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfg1+@pitt.edu) Received: from pitt.edu ("port 1395"@[136.142.89.21]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01K21L5UO2380012OL@mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu> for Freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:25:23 EDT Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 14:26:41 -0400 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Subject: Re: corporate announcement To: Freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3ACCB8E1.8B9D1014@pitt.edu> Organization: University of Pittsburgh MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en,pdf,es-CO References: Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org (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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message