From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 16 13:10:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96BC1566E for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 13:10:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11yi9w-000Aix-00; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:10:00 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA03326; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:10:00 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:10:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Observations from Germany In-Reply-To: <00c001bf4808$ce3f81f0$827e03cb@ORACLE> Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912162108410.3090-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Doug Young wrote: >>From what I've seen the situation in OZ (at least in the deep north) isn'= t Are you from Austria? >unixes out into the real world. Probably the only operating system (other >than Microsoft) seeing a commercial thrust here is the >dreaded RedHat, which is seen advertized more and more in junk mail / >newspaper inserts / >computer retail stores & even K-Mart. There are quite a few unix related Unfortunately, it is also getting good reviews, as being easiest to use and even most stable. >toward the linuxes :( ..... thankfully at least some of the "mexicans" hav= e mexicans =3D southerners? ;-) >seen the light as there >are at least a couple active FreeBSD groups in Sydney & Melbourne > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Konrad Heuer" <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> >To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> >Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 6:34 AM >Subject: Observations from Germany > > >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> one question of high interest for me (and I think for the open source >> community) is about what vendors and purchasers offer. >> >> I see that SuSE does a good job in Germany. SuSE Linux is nowadays offer= ed >> by large purchasers and mail-order-houses like Comtech (a large >> country-wide PC hardware vendor) or Conrad Elektronik (a large >> mail-order-house selling electronic components, hardware, consumer >> electronics etc.) Transtec, an approved hardware vendor offering anythin= g >> from traditional UNIX workstation accessories to printers and PC hardwar= e, >> sells Intel Linux servers ready to use SuSE Linux. >> >> On the one hand, I welcome this trend. Some years ago, commercial vendor= s >> seemed to move exclusively to the Windows systems. On the other hand, I >> would much more like to see FreeBSD in that context than SuSE Linux >> (especially *SuSE* Linux since this distribution frightens everyone with >> some real Unix experience). >> >> I'm rather interested to hear something about the corresponding situatio= n >> in other countries, for example in the USA or Japan or Australia or Russ= ia >> or France or ... - I must stop here since the list would grow to much. >> >> Really thanks for any response! >> >> // >> // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ >_______ >> // Gesellschaft f=FCr wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/= __/ >_ \ >> // Datenverarbeitung mbH G=D6ttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\= \/ >// / >> // Am Fa=DFberg, D-37077 G=D6ttingen /_/ /_/ >\__/\__/____/___/____/ >> // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to >Serve ----- >> // http://www.freebsd.org >> // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de >> // >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message