From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Aug 7 20:11: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from bbcon.com.au (firewall.bbcon.com.au [203.28.19.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B80F14CCA for ; Sat, 7 Aug 1999 20:11:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jsutton@bbcon.com.au) Received: from office.bbcon.com.au (stargate [10.0.0.1]) by bbcon.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA04068; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 13:11:51 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jsutton@bbcon.com.au) Received: from localhost (jsutton@localhost) by office.bbcon.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA14699; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 13:09:05 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: stargate.home: jsutton owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 13:09:04 +1000 (EST) From: Joel Sutton X-Sender: jsutton@stargate.home Reply-To: Joel Sutton To: brian@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [ADV] Marketing / Differentiating FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19990808025724.13926.rocketmail@web1001.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Brian McGroarty wrote: > Let's brainstorm a list of strengths and assets. No idea is > intially rejected. I'll collect the rough responses and create a > list to pick apart. We can formulate strategy based on that. how about: o email support responses usually within a couple of hours o can run a number of "industry standard" packages such as Samba, Apache, Bind, Sendmail, Qmail etc.. (drop some names instead of just saying "the ports collection") What does FreeBSD run that Linux doesn't??? Could that be an alternative approach? Back to you... Cheers, Joel... --- Joel Sutton | Busy Bee Consulting Phone: (0409) 426-563 | Melbourne, Australia Email: jsutton@bbcon.com.au | http://www.bbcon.com.au/ VicFUG Webmaster/Acting President | http://www.vicfug.au.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message