From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 19 19:32:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailin9.bigpond.com (juicer34.bigpond.com [139.134.6.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C7AF37B728 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:32:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gavin@itworks.com.au) Received: from chip.itworks.com.au ([139.134.4.52]) by mailin9.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GACKDO00.JD0 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 01:01:00 +1000 Received: from CPE-61-9-139-251.vic.bigpond.net.au ([61.9.139.251]) by mail5.bigpond.com (Claudes-Dynamic-MailRouter V2.9c 9/6328871); 18 Mar 2001 00:55:47 Received: (qmail 26071 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2001 14:57:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gavin) (192.168.1.100) by 192.168.1.1 with SMTP; 17 Mar 2001 14:57:54 -0000 Message-ID: <036301c0aef2$6d0ad900$6401a8c0@itworks.com.au> From: "Gavin Cameron" To: , "Brad Knowles" References: <012301c0ae81$c390e100$6401a8c0@itworks.com.au> Subject: Re: Getting IBM to release software for IBM Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 01:56:18 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > IBM already use FreeBSD in their InterJet appliance so full support of > > FreeBSD would be a logical progression. > > That's only because they bought the company lock, stock, and barrel. > > I'm told that certain IBM Netfinity servers running FreeBSD can > replace Sun machines costing hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not > millions of dollars) more, at least in certain applications. But do > you honestly think that this is going to be enough to convince them > to divert money away from Linux support? I don't think so. > If we ask, the worst they can say is no. If enough people ask then you never know what they'll do. Cheers Gavin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message