Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 11:13:56 -0700 From: Mike Thompson <mike@atomz.com> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, Kevin Wallace <kevin@atomz.com> Subject: Re: Improved searching for FreeBSD.org web site Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020905111145.00ad6d50@pop.atomz.com> In-Reply-To: <20020905123434.A15857@blackhelicopters.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020822220010.00ab2540@pop.atomz.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020822220010.00ab2540@pop.atomz.com>
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Michael, I look forward to working with you to set up a Atomz based search solution for FreeBSD.org. I'll look over your email further and get back to you later today or tomorrow at the latest with more concrete steps for making this happen. Giving your users a choice in search technology seems reasonable to me. Thanks again for your attention and I'll be getting back to you soon. Mike Thompson CTO/Co-Founder Atomz mike@atomz.com At 12:34 PM 9/5/02 -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: >Hello, > >We've discussed your offer at some length. First, we're extremely >appreciative of this offer. Many of us have checked out the >demonstration you prepared, and are quite impressed. Thank you very >much for presenting this to us! > >The -doc team would like to add the Atomz search engine capability to >our existing search system, and give our users the choice of which >engine to use. Would this be acceptable to you? If so, please do let >us know how you'd like to proceed. By far, the simplest thing for us >would be to provide a link to you and let you provide the complete >search interface, but that might not be what you're offering, so do >let us know. > >In any event, we're glad that you find FreeBSD useful, and we're quite >pleased that you wish to give back to the community. > >Regards, >Michael Lucas >FreeBSD Documentation Project/Donations Liason Officer > > >On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 10:19:22PM -0700, Mike Thompson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I don't know you have heard of us, but Atomz is one of the leading > > providers of hosted web-native search and content management applications > > delivered over the Internet. Since our founding in 1998, our services > have > > been powered by FreeBSD and we now have over 55,000 web sites using Atomz > > hosted services. Companies that use Atomz hosted services include > > Macromedia, Palm, Handspring, Maxtor, CBS News, Sony Playstation, Princess > > Cruises, Kohler, U.S. Customs Department, Johnson & Johnson Lifescan, Red > > Herring Magazine, and the list goes on and on. > > > > I wanted to offer the use of the Atomz search service for the FreeBSD.org > > web site for free. I believe that this could improve the overall quality > > of the FreeBSD.org web site and make it easier for people to find > > information out about our favorite operating system -- FreeBSD. I put > > together a quick example of Atomz Search for the FreeBSD.org web site at > > the following URL: > > > > http://mike.demo.atomz.com/freebsd/ > > > > This example is searching about 2600 documents on the FreeBSD.org web > > site. With a little more work we could search the entire email > archives in > > the same manner and the foreign language sections of the site. > > > > Because of the value at Atomz we have found in FreeBSD, I would make our > > services available to the FreeBSD.org web site for free. We normally sell > > our search service for $15,000 to $100,000 depending on the customer > > requirements so I hope that you can see that this is a very powerful > > service. I would also offer technical assistance from our company to > > assist with making sure FreeBSD.org is getting a top quality > implementation > > of our web service. I would also be willing to offer our content > > management system, Atomz Publish, as well if you think that would be > useful > > to the FreeBSD organization. > > > > In any case, I hope that this offer seems attractive. If you have > > questions or would like to discuss this further, please contact me at > > mike@atomz.com or by phone at 650-244-5602. > > > > Thank you for helping to support the creation of a wonderful operating > system. > > > > Mike Thompson > > CTO/Co-Founder Atomz > > mike@atomz.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > >-- >Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons > > Absolute BSD: http://www.AbsoluteBSD.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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