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Date:      Thu, 15 Jun 2000 08:57:31 +0530
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net>
Cc:        "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>, Joe Warner <jswarner@uswest.net>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD AT WORK
Message-ID:  <20000615085731.B3399@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <200006150307.XAA11312@sanson.reyes.somos.net>; from fran@reyes.somos.net on Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:16:09PM -0400
References:  <39483F84.CEB523D9@uswest.net> <200006150307.XAA11312@sanson.reyes.somos.net>

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> I think it is a good place to start since it is highly visible.
> Something like DNS doesn't impress management. They can't see it
> and they may not even understand it.. 

That reminds me (but I'm not sure why it does) -- recently I installed
NetBSD on the second hard disk of a professor's aging Sun SPARC after
the first hard disk failed, and he's very happy with its performance.
He didn't know anything about BSD earlier.  But I noticed that he was
particularly reassured, early on, by the University of California
copyright messages that scroll by on bootup.  When he commented on
that I gave him some further history on BSD.

Of course, he's a scientist and probably has an instinctive regard
for work done in universities, management types / PHB's may not react
the same way...

R.


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