Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:53:14 -0700 From: Danny Howard <dannyman@tellme.com> To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Using FreeBSD to Sell Sun Hardware Message-ID: <20000622125314.A21088@never.tellme.com>
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Hey! Recently, I asked a Netscape employee if Directory Server might be ported to FreeBSD any time soon. He said it was less likely because of the Sun alliance. I followed up with an argument that by not supporting FreeBSD, they were all the less likely to sell Sun hardware in the end. How does my argument sound? Critiques? Suggestions? Thanks, -danny ----- Forwarded message from Danny Howard <dannyman@tellme.com> ----- On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 09:19:17AM -0700, *********** wrote: > dannyman wrote: [...] > > So, are you guys ever going to port your server products to FreeBSD? > > Probably less likely now (with the Sun/Netscape Alliance). Of course, if > the market for FreeBSD products really took off... It seems like you have a chicken and an egg. On the one hand, you want Directory Server to force more Sparc sales. On the other hand, you want to sell Directory Server as widely as possible. So, a customer wants to evaluate different directory servers, but they don't have spare Sparc hardware laying around, they aren't going to bother with NT, and they really don't feel like provisioning a Linux box because they remember last time they went through all the trouble to do so for a Netscape Server product it just wouldn't install anyway because of some inconsistency with the installed JDK. On the other hand, OpenLDAP is ready to go in about five minutes from the FreeBSD ports collection. So, the first thing I'll eval is OpenLDAP, and given the bar to evaluating NDS, if OpenLDAP does a decent job of satisfying my requirements, I'm more likely to deploy that, and I'm more likely to stick with inexpensive x86 hardware, because that's what I evaled on, and my LDAP vendor isn't extolling the virtues of rolling out a deployment on Sun hardware. Though I'm not sure you're the best person to toss my arguments at? (Maybe you can tell me who I should throw my argument at?) Thank you for your time. -danny ----- End forwarded message ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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