Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 19:23:20 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Forwarded mail.... IBM and FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990305192111.14027B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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I haven't called them yet, but here was their response from my filling out a web form asking about FreeBSD. Presumably this comes down to supply and demand... But perhaps WC wants to talk to them? Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ Safeport Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 99 17:10:13 MST From: askibm@VNET.IBM.COM To: robert@fledge.watson.org IBM-CALLOWN INTERNET RESPONSE FACILITY To......: robert@fledge.watson.org Subject.: IBM BUSINESS PARTNER AND SUPPLIER RELATIONS INFORMATION Dear Mr. Watson, Thank you for contacting IBM. If you would like IBM to consider using your FreeBSD software, please prepare and submit a formal proposal to our Supplier Relations Department at the following e-mail address: supplier_relations@vnet.ibm.com Should you prefer to speak to a representative, please call the IBM Customer Service Center at 1-800-426-4968, and ask to be connected to the Supplier Relations Department. Should you wish to become an IBM Business Partner to supply software solutions and products, please contact the IBM Partnerline or BESTeam by calling 1-800-426-9990. An IBM representative will be happy to assist you further. Additional information on the IBM Business Partner Programs may be obtained by visiting the following IBM Web site: http://www.ibm.com/partners/ Thank you for using the IBM Electronic Response System. Linda (l.J.) Grant (ASKIBM@vnet.ibm.com) IBM Internet Support Group 1-800-IBM-4YOU CALLOWN Log Number: 1216025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Received: from content11c.advantis.com [204.146.18.211] by vnet.IBM.COM (IBM VM SMTP V2R4a) via TCP with SMTP ; Wed, 03 Mar 1999 23:32:08 2 E Received: (from nobody@localhost) by content11c.advantis.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id EAA29792; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 04:32:17 GMT Message-Id: <199903040432.EAA29792@content11c.advantis.com> Date: Thu Mar 4 04:32:16 1999 To: askibm@vnet.ibm.com, ibmweb2@us.ibm.com From: robert@fledge.watson.org (Robert Watson) Subject: Solutions: IBM support for Linux--how about FreeBSD? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu Mar 4 04:32:16 1999 From: robert@fledge.watson.org (Robert Watson) Subject: Solutions: IBM support for Linux--how about FreeBSD? User-agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386; Nav) Remote-host: TROJANHORSE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.91.224] Country-code: us (United States) Referred-from: http://www.software.ibm.com/is/mp/linux/ Privacy: YES Category: Solutions Profile: Prospective customer ----------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD is a power server-class operating system available for a number of platforms (primarily Intel and Alpha-based). As with Linux, it is open source, only with a longer history as based on the Berkeley UNIX. Unlike Linux, it offers a liberal license that does not require the application of GPL to ones own code when extending the existing code. This makes it far more appealing to corporations who want to invest in software development, but not necessarily give away their work when reselling machines. With your support of Linux, we are hopeful that you will add support for FreeBSD also. For more information, please visit http://www.freebsd.org/ For our company, FreeBSD provides superior licensing, flexibility, and unlike Linux, source code maturity. Thanks, and I look forward to hearing from you (especially as we are currently in the market for a number of server machines and workstations :-). ----------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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