From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 29 18:48:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from vulcan.addy.com (vulcan.addy.com [208.11.142.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F58737C31C for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:48:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Received: from tomasa (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by vulcan.addy.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA10606; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:47:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200006300147.VAA10606@vulcan.addy.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "chip@wiegand.org" , "scanner@jurai.net" Cc: "mtaylor@netmax.com" , "mtaylor@cybernet.com" , "FreeBSD Chat" Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:46:45 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <200006272243876.SM00093@chip.wiegand.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Re: Cybermax no longer developing for FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:35:43 PDT, chip wrote: >I wonder though if not buying is helping the situation any. If >everyone who might buy their software decided to not buy it they >would definately dump FreeBSD When I first used Netmax FreeBSD I was impressed with the support and attitude of the technical support department. They, however, are not the ones to decide what happens of the product. In the early days of Netmax where there was only a FreeBSD version, they were working on getting a Linux version out and it seemed most of their resources were working on the Linux version. After the Linux version was out those resources dedicated to Linux did not seem to work much on FreeBSD. AT least that was the way it seemed from where I was standing. >more software for FBSD? I suppose if they come out and say we >absolutely will not support FreeBSD at all, then I would agree that not buying it would >be the appropriate response to them. I disagree. If they still have a FreeBSD version and it is not been maintained and promoted at the same level as Linux then it would be foolish of you to put a dime on cybernet's bank accounts. If you care about the functionality that these products offer then you may as well buy the Linux version. It is also my opinion that going with Linux was a marketting decision and not a technical one. Netmax is marketted as a solution for those who need specific functionality and either want to setup/maintain that functionality quickly/cheaply or for those companies that don't have the knowledge to do it themselves. Either way to both of those clients it will make no difference whether the back end is Linux or FreeBSD. Cybernet simply must have done a business decision based on which product can give them more exposure and increase revenues. This at the moment and for the foreseable future happens to be Linux. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message