From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 9 5:33: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FEE37BD67 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 05:33:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D64F1833D; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 14:32:14 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:47:10 +0200 To: Narvi , Brett Glass From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: BSDi acquisition of Telenet Cc: Kevin Lyons , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 1:17 PM +0200 2000/6/9, Narvi wrote: > IMHO it's pretty clear. They are now a system manufacturer just like sun, > compaq, ibm or similar. Except they started with the software and then > bought the hardware arm 8-) I sure hope that this means they'll build much nicer looking hardware. The stuff I've seen on the old Telenet web page looked pretty ratty, compared to some of the stuff I've seen from Cobalt and some other vendors (Sun's Netra t1 and the 220R and 420R are okay, but I'd shoot higher than that). I'm not so worried about how it will perform (although Telenet doesn't seem to have anything that can compare with how much Dell crams into their 2450), but it would be nice if we finally had a vendor in this market that actually built nice-looking hardware. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message