From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 1 9: 5:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B96A37B401 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 09:05:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B47C43EA9 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 09:05:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ck@cksoft.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91D6B1FFF00; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:05:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id DB9831FFF0C; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:05:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by hirvi.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DB4B61B673; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:56:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hirvi.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C5B218E88; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:56:45 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:56:45 +0100 (CET) From: Christian Kratzer X-X-Sender: To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: Subject: Re: List of big names ... In-Reply-To: <20021201023429.G6214-100000@hub.org> Message-ID: X-Spammer-Kill-Ratio: 75% MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300 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 Hi, On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Other then that I know Yahoo! uses FreeBSD ... is there a list that anyone > is maintain about who is using it? I've been having discussions with a > partner for awhile now about whether we should launch a product with a > base OS of linux vs freebsd ... and its tiring to try and argue against > "but, nobody is accepting FreeBSD ... everyone (IBM, HP, Sun, etc) is > falling behind Linux" ... > > Do we have *anything* ... case studies or the like, from big names that > have decided *for* FreeBSD over Linux, with a sort of 'why' discusion? on the embedded side there is the Nokia/CheckPoint hardware firewall applicaces. Nokia uses a hacked FreeBSD 2.x base system to host the checkpoint firewall for which checkpoint did a port only available with this nokia bundle. Also junipers internet core routers are based on FreeBSD. Greetings Christian -- CK Software GmbH Christian Kratzer, Schwarzwaldstr. 31, 71131 Jettingen Email: ck@cksoft.de Phone: +49 7452 889-135 Open Software Solutions, Network Security Fax: +49 7452 889-136 FreeBSD spoken here! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message