From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 26 19:39:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 CA74C16A4DA for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:39:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF0943D4C for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:39:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BB31291B02; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:39:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 43062-07; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:39:28 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74AAF291AFC; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:39:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id B7CEC45508; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:39:28 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C7239EFD; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:39:28 -0300 (ADT) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:39:28 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd To: "Peter A. Giessel" In-Reply-To: <44C7B8DC.4070300@mac.com> Message-ID: <20060726163857.A17979@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060726032544.4CA2643D70@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20060726123204.C17979@ganymede.hub.org> <44C79475.90308@mac.com> <20060726153149.X17979@ganymede.hub.org> <44C7B8DC.4070300@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:39:29 -0000 On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Peter A. Giessel wrote: > On 7/26/2006 10:34, User Freebsd seems to have typed: >> Supporting 3ware is good, but what if/when Adaptec buys them out ... >> Adaptec doesn't officially support FreeBSD, therefore, anyone they buy out >> would most likely change their policy accordingly ... > > Not if they look at the sales and go, "2/3rd of their sales are > FreeBSD"... Companies are pretty reluctant to drop support for a > majority of their users. How do they know that 2/3rd of their sales are FreeBSD? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664