From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 09:08:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FF0216A4F0 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:08:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sneezy.bossbox.com (sneezy.bossbox.com [83.245.10.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD0EA43D41 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:08:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brian@sneezy.bossbox.com) Received: from [83.245.10.34] ([83.245.10.34]) by sneezy.bossbox.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9R93cc8092922; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:03:38 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from brian@sneezy.bossbox.com) Message-ID: <417F6526.8040201@sneezy.bossbox.com> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:06:46 +0100 From: Brian User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dru References: <4BA256918ACE7449BD7896E65711C88B06248657@1UPMC-MSX8.isdip.upmc.edu> <20041025150548.R690@dru.domain.org> In-Reply-To: <20041025150548.R690@dru.domain.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Success Stories X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:08:36 -0000 Dru wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Person, Roderick wrote: > >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org >>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dru >>> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 9:08 AM >>> To: advocacy@freebsd.org >>> Subject: BSD Success Stories >>> >>> >>> >>> At long last! The stories have been formatted and a flyer is >>> available for >>> distribution. >>> >>> The stories themselves are available at: >>> >>> http://linux.oreilly.com/news/bsd_ss.pdf >>> >> >> >> After 5 years, Today I finally convinced the sr. network guy to try >> FreeBSD! >> He said I just badgered him into it finally, and the sending of this >> PDF was >> the final key. THANKS!! >> >> Maybe now they'll let me switch my web server to FreeBSD/Apache >> instead of >> the Win2k/Apache it is. > > > > Cool :-) With your permission, Roderick, I'd like to forward your > email to my editor at O'Reilly. > > And, anyone else on the list who either appreciated the PDF or have > good results from it, _please_ take a minute to compose an > appreciative email to O'Reilly. Right now, their impression is that > there isn't much of a BSD > market and that publishing "BSD Success Stories" wouldn't have much of > an impact. That impression will never change if BSD users don't speak up. > > Dru > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Execellent! I've brought this to the attention of our customer implementation team, To add to our portfolio a complete managed FreeBSD soloution . As we are one of the biggest housing centere's in europe we hope to offer this and market it on a very large scale. I'll keep the advocacy list updated on our progress. Many thanks for your time Dru.