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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM's radar screen?
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sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
> 
> I work mainly for Enitel, a medium sized ISP in Norway. We use FreeBSD
> a lot (eivind and des can tell you more about this). Today I got an
> interesting question from IBM Norway: What would be needed for IBM to
> support FreeBSD for Enitel? Basically: What FreeBSD version, what kind
> of hardware do we need supported, etc. (Based on IBM's Netfinity servers,
> of course.)
> 
> I told them a bit about 4.2-STABLE, which is our platform of choice, and
> also mentioned that we'd be interested in the Qlogic fibre channel cards
> for the higher end platforms.
> 
> Anyway, I just wanted to mention on -hackers that it's possible FreeBSD
> is starting to show up on IBM's radar screen. I think it's way too early
> to conclude anything yet, but it's interesting nevertheless.

remember that IBM owns whistle (until they finish
integrating it into different parts of IBM
and it dissappears) (burp) 
and have some FreeBSD experience there.

> 
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
> 
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