From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jun 22 14:50:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0CBA37BEDB for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:50:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrisc@vmunix.com) Received: by vnode.vmunix.com (Postfix, from userid 1005) id 261EBE; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:50:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vnode.vmunix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A11549A10; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:50:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:50:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Coleman To: The Clark Family Cc: Danny Howard , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD to Sell Sun Hardware In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Compaq has a FreeBSD Testdrive program Chris Coleman Daemon News http://www.daemonnews.org Bringing BSD together On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, The Clark Family wrote: > > Sun has stayed suprisingly far away from FreeBSD. Which is weird, > considering their early SunOS days. > > Apple is doing things with BSD. > > Intel sells (some) BSD based stuff. > > CISCO has some BSD skeletons in their closet. > > MS uses BSD. > > Who does that leave? IBM? Compaq? HP? > > [RC] > > On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Danny Howard wrote: > > > Hey! > > > > Recently, I asked a Netscape employee if Directory Server might be ported to > > FreeBSD any time soon. He said it was less likely because of the Sun > > alliance. I followed up with an argument that by not supporting FreeBSD, they > > were all the less likely to sell Sun hardware in the end. How does my > > argument sound? Critiques? Suggestions? > > > > Thanks, > > -danny > > > > ----- Forwarded message from Danny Howard ----- > > > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 09:19:17AM -0700, *********** wrote: > > > dannyman wrote: > > [...] > > > > So, are you guys ever going to port your server products to FreeBSD? > > > > > > Probably less likely now (with the Sun/Netscape Alliance). Of course, if > > > the market for FreeBSD products really took off... > > > > It seems like you have a chicken and an egg. > > > > On the one hand, you want Directory Server to force more Sparc sales. > > On the other hand, you want to sell Directory Server as widely as possible. > > > > So, a customer wants to evaluate different directory servers, but they don't > > have spare Sparc hardware laying around, they aren't going to bother with NT, > > and they really don't feel like provisioning a Linux box because they remember > > last time they went through all the trouble to do so for a Netscape Server > > product it just wouldn't install anyway because of some inconsistency with the > > installed JDK. > > > > On the other hand, OpenLDAP is ready to go in about five minutes from the > > FreeBSD ports collection. > > > > So, the first thing I'll eval is OpenLDAP, and given the bar to evaluating > > NDS, if OpenLDAP does a decent job of satisfying my requirements, I'm more > > likely to deploy that, and I'm more likely to stick with inexpensive x86 > > hardware, because that's what I evaled on, and my LDAP vendor isn't extolling > > the virtues of rolling out a deployment on Sun hardware. > > > > Though I'm not sure you're the best person to toss my arguments at? (Maybe > > you can tell me who I should throw my argument at?) > > > > Thank you for your time. > > -danny > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message