From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 10:10:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB3816A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:10:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from amsfep20-int.chello.nl (amsfep12-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74B6943D48 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:10:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dodell@sitetronics.com) Received: from sitetronics.com ([62.163.150.239]) by amsfep20-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.00.05.02 201-2115-109-103-20031105) with ESMTP id <20040330181034.XLTW7031.amsfep20-int.chello.nl@sitetronics.com>; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:10:34 +0200 Message-ID: <4069B744.10005@sitetronics.com> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:07:00 +0200 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linh Pham References: <002f01c4165c$a0c0d1d0$6f01a8c0@miter.local> <40697A82.2070402@sitetronics.com> <20040330161208.GB51160@q.internal.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <20040330161208.GB51160@q.internal.closedsrc.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Website X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:10:36 -0000 Linh Pham wrote: > On 2004-03-30 15:47 +0200, "Devon H. O'Dell" wrote: > > # And in more companies. FreeBSD is already used by many (large) companies > # (including those in the Fortune 500). I know that even MS uses FreeBSD > # for the SFU software. > > IIRC - Since Microsoft purchased Interix, SFU is using a more Linux-like > userland than FreeBSD. I don't know if there are any other parts of the > SFU, like the NFS daemon and/or client, that are based on FreeBSD or > not. > There is a member of #FreeBSD on the Freenode IRC server who works at Microsoft on SFU and uses FreeBSD regularly for his work porting code. --Devon