From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 1:12:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D12637B40B; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 01:12:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f9G8BxT18638; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 01:12:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Doug Hass" , "Leo Bicknell" Cc: "Jim Bryant" , "MurrayTaylor" , , Subject: RE: FYI Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 01:11:59 -0700 Message-ID: <000601c1561a$3acf7f20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: Doug Hass [mailto:dhass@imagestream.com] >Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 8:56 AM >To: Leo Bicknell >Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; Jim Bryant; MurrayTaylor; >freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: FYI > > >In a private e-mail, Leo writes: > >> You offered a discount on these boards on the list. If you think there >> is a real opportunity to sell these to the *BSD crowd, I recomend you >> take that 15% (or some part of it) and offer to partially fund a driver >> developer. There are many freelance programmers working on the project >> who for $1000-$5000 (depending on complexity) could make your driver a >> reality. A good developer could probably also make them work under >> OpenBSD and NetBSD in one fell swoop. > >I'd be happy to pledge the 15% to a driver developer. That's a >great idea! It will accomplish two objectives: > >1) There will be at least 100 WANic 400 series cards available for >purchase to support existing installations (assuming someone out there >places the order). > >2) ImageStream will pledge 15% of the purchase price of any lots of these >400 series cards toward porting of our SAND architecture to FreeBSD. >That's a MINIMUM of $8,100 that ImageStream is willing to pay a developer >or group of developers to port the drivers for the rest of the cards. > >Ted--you've indicated that there is a significant market for the 400 >series cards in the community. There is depending on the price. I'll freely admit however that I have not priced the competitive serial sync cards that are currently supported under FreeBSD, so I don't know how the WANic 400 or 500 stacks up against them. For all I know right now there's someone just bringing a T1 interface card to the market with integrated CSU that sells for $30 per card which would make this entire discussion moot. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message