Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 12:50:32 -0500 From: "Frank Pawlak" <fpawlak@execpc.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, Ashort@concentric.net Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux Message-ID: <199805131250320375.007F66C9@mailgate.execpc.com> In-Reply-To: <9730.895076375@time.cdrom.com> References: <9730.895076375@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan and All, I am as we speak working on these two critical issues. Understand, that my time is limited as is that of all the volunteer staff. The intent of my post was to get the ball rolling and gather ideas. There has been good response to several of the questions raised, such as installed base etc. I think that we have a large enough installed based with an excellent growth run rate, and Instances of FreeBSD in locations where it is being hammered on pretty hard to make a sound case for its' viability. I am working on a very rough outline for a document that makes the case for FreeBSD to be presented to ISV product managers or whom ever we need to get to in order to get some commercial action. I wonder what our chances are of trying to persuade Oracle to port their DBMS to FreeBSD? We could sure use on early adaptor or two to serve as mentors in the endeavor. Understand also that my some total of Linux/FreeBSD experience is slightly over one year. So where technological issues are concerned it could said that I have a rough time finding my backside with two hands and a tour guide. So if I make a statement or two in ignorance, a little gentle guidance would be appreciated. That said, I am still willing to devote time to this in whatever capacity I can make some valuable contribution. One last thing, the last part of my post has so far fetched zilch for response. That is the part that I expect to be torn apart and determined as good/bad idea. Also, one person was good enough to respond and expressed a concern about their command of the English language. Please don't let that stop you. If you have ideas, please express them and working together we will sort out the language things. Let's go to work Frank *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 5/13/98, at 12:16 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> All I am saying is that FreeBSD isn't really on the mainstream's mind. I > >But we know all that already and you're not really adding anything >useful to this conversation in pointing that out. What we need >here are: > >1. Concrete examples of what can be done to improve the situation. >2. Actual attempts to do so. > >- Jordan > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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