From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 16 17:29:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from chip.itworks.com.au (CPE-61-9-139-251.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.139.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CC7037B71A for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:29:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gavin@itworks.com.au) Received: (qmail 23798 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2001 01:31:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gavin) (192.168.1.100) by 192.168.1.1 with SMTP; 17 Mar 2001 01:31:26 -0000 Message-ID: <012301c0ae81$c390e100$6401a8c0@itworks.com.au> From: "Gavin Cameron" To: Subject: Getting IBM to release software for IBM Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 12:27:53 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, I'd like to get a team together of people who would like to see IBM natively support FreeBSD as a platform for software like DB2, Tivoli and WebSphere. I've started a mailing list at freebsd-ibm@lists.itworks.com.au so we can discuss what software we should ask IBM to port without annoying the rest of the people on -chat. What I'd like to see come out of the discussions on the mailing list is a list of software that we'd like to see ported and that we would be willing to purchase and install for ourselves and our clients. I'd also like to come up with a list of resources that we can give to IBM so that they know who/where to contact if they have any problems with the operating system or the porting process. We should also give them a list of benefits to them if they agree to port their software. IBM already use FreeBSD in their InterJet appliance so full support of FreeBSD would be a logical progression. One possibility would also be a port of FreeBSD to their RS/6000 machines. If we can get more IBM support for FreeBSD it would be a great thing for all of us. If you are interested please subscribe to the mailing list by sending an E-mail to freebsd-ibm-subscribe@lists.itworks.com.au. Once subscribed you can send an E-mail to the list by E-mailing freebsd-ibm@lists.itworks.com.au. To give people enough time to subscribe I think we shouldn't start the discussion until 01:00 GMT on Mon 19 March 2000. Cheers Gavin Cameron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message