From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 1 21: 4:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC9F37B719 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:04:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from sv.Go2France.com (sv.meiway.com [212.73.210.79]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 13F4A16B13 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 06:16:07 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010302055922.058e8440@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: lconrad%Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 06:02:27 +0100 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM's radar screen? In-Reply-To: References: <3A9F1065.8F738700@elischer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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