From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 1 10:25:51 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 5043037B401 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 10:25:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF7E943E4A for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 10:25:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (12-231-115-57.client.attbi.com[12.231.115.57]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with SMTP id <2002120118254800300jbpage>; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:25:48 +0000 Message-ID: <3DEA5425.4050007@mac.com> Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 10:25:41 -0800 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021128 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: List of big names ... References: <20021201023429.G6214-100000@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20021201023429.G6214-100000@hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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" ... > Apple seems to think pretty highly of FreeBSD. And there are the oft-repeated rumors that WinNT/2000/XP all use the BSD TCP stack. Having used both, I would never choose Linux over FreeBSD. > 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? > F5 Systems based their load balancers/switches on BSD and a follow-on company started by one of the founders (Ahaza Systems, now defunct) was going to build IPv6-aware switching gear based on FreeBSD. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ She missed an invaluable opportunity to give him a look that you could have poured on a waffle ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message