From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 11:19:19 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 6004616A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:19:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5114B43D1D for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:19:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com ([157.226.230.209]:4275) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1B8OlF-0001JL-4J; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:18:57 -0800 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:09:24 -0800 Received: from dhcp-46-107.acuson.com ([157.226.46.107]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id HX2WP4P8; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:08:06 -0800 From: Johnson David To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:16:51 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <002f01c4165c$a0c0d1d0$6f01a8c0@miter.local> <40697A82.2070402@sitetronics.com> <20040330101519.R2711@beck.quonix.net> In-Reply-To: <20040330101519.R2711@beck.quonix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403301116.51886.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1B8OlF-0001JL-4J*5jmkFAVjbfo* cc: John Von Essen 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 19:19:19 -0000 On Tuesday 30 March 2004 07:26 am, John Von Essen wrote: > And... It doesn't help when they go to freebsd.org. It makes FreeBSD > seem NON-enterprise. Personally, i think the site is fine, but Im a > tech, not a CTO. Maybe, freebsd.com can be redesigned have a suse.com > or redhat.com look-n-feel, and freebsd.org can retain - the developer > community look-n-feel. I hate to say this, but FreeBSD is definitely NON-enterprise. That's because we are not an enterprise! We are a non-commercial community based operating system. There is no way we could have a Redhat or SuSE style site, because we don't sell anything or provide paid support. We don't have "Business Customers", commercial "solutions", shrink wrapped boxes, offer certification, funds for professionally created graphics, etc. Some of this could be provided by commercial vendors of FreeBSD (Daemonnews, FreeBSD Mall), but not by FreeBSD itself. Actually, now that I look at it, the FreeBSD site follows the same basic layout as the KDE site. Last I heard KDE was turning heads in the enterprise... David