From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 18 09:15:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA14148 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:15:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagpuss.visint.co.uk (bagpuss.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA14141 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:15:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagpuss.visint.co.uk (bagpuss.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.1]) by bagpuss.visint.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA12462; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:15:47 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:15:47 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome To: Adrian Chadd cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Darren Reed , "David S. Miller" , fullermd@narcissus.ml.org, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another Linux Religious war (was Re: Commercial vendors registry) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > I can't see any upper management person ever taking a liking to anything > > > that is available "freely" on the 'net for mission critical stuff. And > > > I don't mean your < 100 people small companies, but big organisations > > > with real budgets. > > > > You may be surprised. > > > > A company that handles networking all the car dealers around Australia > approached us for internet connectivity (weirdly enough, they are upstairs > from us :). They run digital equipment and VMS exclusively on ALL their > machines. That's just weird, "exactly" the same is happening to us in England! More for FreeBSD. -- Steve Roome Technical Systems Manager, Vision Interactive Ltd. E: steve@visint.co.uk M: +44 (0) 976 241 342 T: +44 (0) 117 973 0597 F: +44 (0) 117 923 8522