From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 30 23: 0:13 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 E605937B404 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 23:00:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896D443EA9 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 23:00:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (12-231-115-57.client.attbi.com[12.231.115.57]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with SMTP id <2002120107001005300akv31e>; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 07:00:10 +0000 Message-ID: <3DE9B374.9080700@mac.com> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 23:00:04 -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" ... > > 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? > you probably would be better to take this up on -advocacy. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ Have you noticed the way people's intelligence capabilities decline sharply the minute they start waving guns around? -- Dr. Who To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message