Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 06:02:27 +0100 From: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM's radar screen? Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.0.20010302055922.058e8440@mail.Go2France.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010301222517.stox@imagescape.com> References: <3A9F1065.8F738700@elischer.org>
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>The problem is that 93.7% of IBM probably has no idea that IBM owns whistle. > >I remember a discussion I had with an IBM sales rep working at the NCC >conference in the early 1980's. He had no idea that IBM was selling systems >that ran UNIX. At the time they were selling a 68K based lab system ( >the 9000 ?? ) and I think were still selling the Series 1. I'm sure >that things >haven't changed much since. IBM is financing postfix and Wietse Venema, but recently they felt it necessary to make a press announcement that they were standardizing on senmdmail of some Linux platform. When I asked Wietse about the sendmail announcement, he told me: "It's a big company" Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : Binary for ISC BIND 8.2.3 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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