From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 21 9:50:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE58737BBEB for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:50:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA384750; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:50:09 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <38D78553.44D3277D@buckhorn.net> References: <38D78553.44D3277D@buckhorn.net> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:50:54 -0500 To: Bob Martin , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: 21st Century Unix Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 8:21 AM -0600 3/21/00, Bob Martin wrote: >We need Oracle, Informix and Web Sphere. We need reseller channels, >24/7 support and partnerships with big hardware vendors. > >I'm counting on the merger for a big part of that. But we are also going >to have to be a bit more militant. We need to bombard folks like Sun, >Adobe and Corel with polite e-mails requesting BSD support. New BSD motto: We put the "polite" in "militancy"... :-) --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message