From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 22 11:11:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA02363 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 11:11:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA02305 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 11:11:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-usr14.etinc.com (dialup-usr14.etinc.com [204.141.95.130]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA08250; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 14:18:12 -0400 Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 14:18:12 -0400 Message-Id: <199609221818.OAA08250@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Joe Greco From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Job openings: Unix Network Programmers, Internet server Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Richard told me yesterday that Microsoft recently announced a >> multi-billion (yes, billion) dollar initiative to make NT *the* >> network operating system in 1997, and that's a whole heck of a lot of >> money. It's time for small companies involved with UNIX to pool their >> efforts or Bill is going to eat them all. He might eat them anyway, >> in the long run, but I'd really hate to look back on this time and >> reflect that we made it easy for him to do so by squabbling amongst >> ourselves while Microsoft raced ahead. I think the UNIX community has >> already done far too much of that already and it's time for a change. Its pretty hard to compete with micro$oft, but they've been throwing tons of money at the problem for years and only have NoT to show for it. Just find a niche and get what you can. Even if you were 5 times better you'd lose. Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous PC Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX.