From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 14 09:59:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16514 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 09:59:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA16480 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:59:17 GMT (envelope-from wpeters@xylan.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw [OUT])) id JAA23845; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 09:59:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 1.0)) id JAA13672; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 09:57:52 -0700 Received: from xylan.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id KAA06743; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:57:50 -0600 Message-ID: <353395B3.BF79F6FB@xylan.com> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:58:27 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Xylan Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: esr@thyrsus.com CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open Source Products References: <199804131719.LAA21122@narnia.plutotech.com> <35326353.4E30451B@xylan.com> <19980413201541.65522@snark.thyrsus.com> <3532AD36.2968F8B6@xylan.com> <19980413215647.37918@snark.thyrsus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wes Peters : > > At some time, once Linux starts getting really entrenched in a couple > > of highly visible businesses, somebody's going to hit a snag running > > a TurboLinux application on a RedHat server or some such silly bunch > > of rot, and they're going to tell some hare-brained "journalist" > > about it, and the PC rags are going to have a heyday. "See, we told > > you this Linux stuff was for the birds, trust Microsoft. Their > > products are perfect, and their dedicated support staff will take care > > of you." Eric S. Raymond wrote: > It would be *very* unwise to hope for this. For one thing, if your > story about BSD being preferable for highly-stressed, high-throughput > network servers is true, it's about as likely you'll get bit as a > Linux box will. And, in any case, if you think the pinheads who > inhabit the trade press wouldn't rush to interpret a conspicuous Linux > failure as a slam on *all* open-source/Unix OSs, you're dreaming. I don't hope for this, I live in fear of it. I see FreeBSD as a somewhat higher-end product related to Linux, at least in market terms. If anything disastrous happens to Linux in the commercial world, the chances of FreeBSD ever making significant penetration there are zero. What I was trying to point out is that in some significant ways, Linux is even *more* fractured than the separate *BSD offerings. Of course, if Red Hat continues their momentum, this may not be a problem by next year. ;^) -- Wes Peters Who's going to save you Principal Engineer When you're a slave to Xylan Corporation A diamond as big as the Ritz wpeters@xylan.com -- Jimmy Buffett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message