From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 6 6:24:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34597151BD for ; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 06:23:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 2910 invoked from network); 6 Mar 1999 14:23:35 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 6 Mar 1999 14:23:35 -0000 Received: (from toor@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA00359; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 09:23:32 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903061423.JAA00359@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: Guess we've lost the server market too...? In-Reply-To: from Pat Lynch at "Mar 5, 99 11:50:42 pm" To: lynch@rush.net (Pat Lynch) Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 09:23:31 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, chris@netmonger.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Pat Lynch said: > at this point, I want to step in and mention a phenomenon that seems to be > happening everywhere. It happened to me, and its happening to alot of > people I know. > > X installs linux, X likes linux, Y says "Try FreeBSD", Y happens to be > somewhat of a "guru" in FreeBSD, X respects Y, X listens, X tries FreeBSD, > X *loves* FreeBSD, X starts to get clued and starts spreading the word. > > I think its this type of "Grassroots" marketing that works very well for > us. > Well, that is encouraging... I wonder if that has enough impact to effect a critical mass for FreeBSD? Alot of Linux installations are "good enough", just as alot of NT installations are "good enough". In reality, the improvement of FreeBSD over Linux is often significant, but not nearly the magnitude of improvement that one will see in moving from NT. People do make emotional decisions, and what you show above is yet another kind of emotional decision (one based upon trust.) There are also decisions based upon hype, and market presence. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message