From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 21 08:53:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA28286 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 08:53:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA28274; Thu, 21 May 1998 08:52:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA23124; Thu, 21 May 1998 08:52:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199805211552.IAA23124@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , fpawlak@execpc.com, kline@tera.tera.com, freebsd@atipa.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enough already! (Re: Why we should support Microsoft...) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 May 1998 08:26:30 PDT." <19980521082629.B25066@mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 08:52:47 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 05:56:41AM -0700, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > At the last BAFUG meeting I had a conversation with the head tech person at > a large ISP here in the bay area know for it's use of FreeBSD. He told me > the story of how microsoft was putting serious pressure on ISPs to drop > Unix in general and switch to NT. microsoft was at the same time going > behind this ISP's back and telling their suppliers and major customers that > this ISP was switching to NT and when were they (the customer) going to > switch to NT. microsoft was then telling this large ISP that all of the > ISP's customers were switching to NT and the customers wanted to know when > was the ISP going to switch. I have heard this from other people and other > ISPs. > It sounds like a good sales strategy can we convince the sales person to switch to FreeBSD! Cheers, Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message