From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 11 11:53:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16463 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 11:53:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16340 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 11:52:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09193; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 11:52:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199804111852.LAA09193@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: lfloyd@sonic.net cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Leverage In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 11 Apr 1998 09:02:10 PDT." <352F9402.64A0AEA5@sonic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 11:52:24 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It helps a lot if you can find a company in the same kind of business or at least the same size which is using FreeBSD . In other words, give them a reference and a lot of times is a matter of showing that some in the "pack" are using FreeBSD and the rest of the "Suits" would not mind joining the "pack". You have to lead them like a herd of sheeps 8) Cheers, Amancio > I work for an environmental consulting firm that mainly uses PCs (Win > 3.x and Win95) hooked to an NT server using Banyan. We have about 1,000 > employees nationwide tied together by a WAN. The other day I was > talking to one of the IS support people about alternative OSs. I was > astonished (at first) to hear that our Corp IS folks would never > consider using an operating system that is free. They feel better about > spending money for the product, especially if it has good support. They > are savy enough or experienced enough to figure out problems on their > own. > > So, in the case of FreeBSD, "support" may invite more corporate users to > consider using it.... perhaps. > > (Of course I did mention that there was massive support via the > Internet, but that didn't fly.) > > - Larry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message