From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 29 14:06:20 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 DE9FE16A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:06:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from crf-consulting.co.uk (82-44-220-218.cable.ubr10.haye.blueyonder.co.uk [82.44.220.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EE4943D45 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:06:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@crf-consulting.co.uk) Received: from clan.nothing-going-on.org (clan.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.20])i2TM6J5U062597; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:06:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin) Received: from clan.nothing-going-on.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i2TM6JQ5045630; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:06:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@clan.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost)i2TM6I2I045629; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:06:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:06:18 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Johnson David Message-ID: <20040329220618.GC713@clan.nothing-going-on.org> References: <200403290441.i2T4fscK023387@cimbali.dssrg.curtin.edu.au> <200403291028.01102.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <20040329203016.GA4496@panix.com> <200403291244.19599.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0lnxQi9hkpPO77W3" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403291244.19599.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: FreeBSD Project cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mainframe support 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: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:06:21 -0000 --0lnxQi9hkpPO77W3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 12:44:19PM -0800, Johnson David wrote: > On Monday 29 March 2004 12:30 pm, Adam Turoff wrote: > > So while IBM's VM per se may only be interesting to the Fortune 500, > > virtualization is gaining traction, especially at the low end of the > > spectrum. ISPs for example have been offering accounts on virtual > > machines for a few years now. I wouldn't be surprised to see shops > > that used to buy vanilla boxes in groups of 4 to soon start buying > > boxes one one by one, adding a few GB of RAM and at least 1 TB of > > disk, and partitioning them on demand. >=20 > I don't know if this is the same thing or not, but the John Company=20 > (www.johncompanies.com) seems to be already doing this with FreeBSD. Right. JC use FreeBSD jails. I've had one with them for a while; they're a good company -- solid support, and it does exactly what it says on the tin. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__) FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',) \/ \= ^ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- .\._/= _) --0lnxQi9hkpPO77W3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAaJ3Wk6gHZCw343URAi+AAJ40l0ynYW0l7muwylgLB0tgJ0dX1wCfTrR7 zvrlqI0x12e0Q1htje/4+Bo= =xhFA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0lnxQi9hkpPO77W3--