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Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote:

> Do we have anyone at Yahoo! that could write something up for us? Yahoo! 
> must without doubt be one of the biggest feathers in FreeBSD's hat.
> 
> I know that distributed.net runs FreeBSD. It would be nice to have 
> something from them that shows that BSD can handle massive SQL databases 
> for those that like that. I know that a lot of people for some reason 
> turns to linux/MySQL when it comes to databases. Showing that a project 
> like distributed.net with their huge databases uses FreeBSD should 
> convince atleast some people to take another look at BSD.
> 
> Does anyone know anyone inside Yahoo! or distributed.net?
> 
> -- 
> R

Not to mention Juniper, NASA, Envivio, About.com and many others. I'm 
sure Matt can get our customers to write a quick testimonial for this, 
being the great businessman he is :)

Dru: is there a more concrete deadline than ``fairly quickly''?

Kind regards,

Devon H. O'Dell