Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 23:52:28 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: List of big names ... Message-ID: <3DE9BFBC.896E74F0@mindspring.com> References: <20021201023429.G6214-100000@hub.org>
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"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" ... But are they making money on the product itself, or doing it for the free column space the trade press gives you when you mention "Linux", because htey're looking for someone to fight the neighborhood bully, Microsoft? Everyone loves an underdog. IBM bought Whistle Communications for it's product based on FreeBSD; can you name a company that IBM bought that had a product based on Linux? HP and Bruce Perens "parted ways". Sun is a hardware company. > 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? I wrote an article that was published by Daemon News, about using Open Source in embedded systems, which covered the license issues. There's also the "gallery": http://www.freebsd.org/gallery/cgallery.html -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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