From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 6 2:59:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D35537B440 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 02:59:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@minmail.net) Received: (qmail 8584 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2001 11:59:41 +0200 Received: from bb-62-5-7-15.bb.tninet.se (HELO pcmarpxy.tninet.se) (62.5.7.15) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 6 Apr 2001 11:59:41 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" , "David Xu" , Subject: Re: BSDi Acquired by Embedded Computing Firm Wind River Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:59:41 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <002901c0bda4$88ae89c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <002901c0bda4$88ae89c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01040611594102.73296@pcmarpxy.tninet.se> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 05 April 2001 09:46, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Ted sed : > The big danger of doing the server focus thing, though, is that you > can end up being marginalized. Look at what's going on with the > commercial UNIX's like Solaris and others. Every year those OS's > get higher, and higher, and higher end. It's getting very difficult > to buy a Sun product these days that will work out-of-the-box as a > small to medium business server, and still be cost-effective. Funny, we just bought 20 Netra servers at a few thousand a pop to replace a bunch of big iron costing megabucks a pop! :-) .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message