Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:02:20 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD? Message-ID: <522548025.20050224180220@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <89b41e470502240834ba670b1@mail.gmail.com> References: <eeef1a4c050223074232167e2d@mail.gmail.com> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEIDFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <89b41e4705022407542f4feaa9@mail.gmail.com> <89b41e470502240834ba670b1@mail.gmail.com>
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Daniel writes: > would not these things be worthy of implementing in FreeBSD? this way > other big companies would use it, pay you guys for it and FreeBSD will > grow stronger... There are other obstacles to deployment of FreeBSD in large organizations. The main one is a lack of formal, guaranteed support. This afflicts Linux, also, to some extent, depending on the distribution. Even for "supported" Linux distributions, the support is often very limited in comparison to that available for systems such as Solaris, Windows, or even Mac OS X. > making a good OS that runs on cheap, low-end machines is nice, but the > real money come from companies... The problem is that the largest companies need more than just a technically superior operating system. That's why they are still buying Solaris and Windows. -- Anthony
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