From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 3 4:23: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat193.154.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.193.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B51D14F3B for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 04:23:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA61264; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 08:22:43 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 08:22:42 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guess we've lost the server market too...? In-Reply-To: <39909.920444937@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > http://www.ibm.com/news/1999/03/02.phtml > > While I'm not denying IBM's residual importance in the marketplace > (and that's still pretty darn big), I hardly see this as having > "lost" anything at all. Alot of companies tend to still prefer the "commericial server vendors", which, other then Gateway, are all moving towards Linux recogniztion or direct support... IBM and Compaq are two the of the large ones that are shipping with Linux Oracle, a predominate server market, is shipping for Linux Intel just jumped behind Linux through VAResearch - Slashdot -> VA Going Bigtime article How does one work at curbing this trend? How do we become more visible? For my part, once Applixware is released, I'm going to pick up a copy of it...add my voice of one to sales, hopefully to help show that there is a market for stuff like that, but that's one voice :( Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message