From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jul 3 19:14:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA24232 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 19:14:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (jkb@shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA24222 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 19:14:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) with SMTP id TAA23750 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 19:14:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 19:14:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: just something to say Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I just wanted to say something here since this list has been quite lately. Basically, many of you already know this, but anyway. Whenever I have to convince someone who is not very technical why they should use FreeBSD, I usually try not to bore them with how great our vm is, or why is it better to have centralized and hence better controlled code. I usually tell people something like this: "Look, here is an example: yahoo. Their stock is skyrocketing and they are doing excellent. Yes, they are using FreeBSD. They have in house support for it, but still, they must know what they are doing - their whole operation is FreeBSD based. Another example is Hotmail. Even though they got bought by MS, they are still using FreeBSD on the front end to run their servers since NT couldn't' handle the load. Want another example? Take a look at Best Internet -- they jut filed for IPO". Something in the lines of the above paragraph usually gets a message through to the suits that to have successful company you don't need NT or Solaris. You just need to have people with a clue. But that is another subject. Anyway, happy 4th to those who celebrate (I don't, I just enjoy the day off) and lets make some noise on this list. -- Yan Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." ---------------------------------------+----------------------------------- ICMP: What happens when you hack into a military network and they catch you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message