From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Dec 12 5:46:55 2000 From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 05:46:52 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.ocsny.com (apollo.ocsny.com [204.107.76.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A37337B400 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 05:46:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from ocsinternet.com (fw234.ocsny.com [204.107.76.234]) by apollo.ocsny.com (8.9.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA44740; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:46:56 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A362BFD.5CAB5118@ocsinternet.com> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:45:34 -0500 From: mikel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jessemonroy@email.com Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@netbsd.org, advocacy@openbsd.org Subject: Re: SVEC Meeting: BSD or Linux....Which? Why? References: <200012112350.PAA88050@dnull.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Will you be posting the minutes of that meeting? It might be nice to know what's going on since there are those of us on the other cost who are unable to attend. Cheers, Mikel jessem@livecam.com wrote: > Sorry to all, the last post did not send the right stuff. > Here it is: > ==================================================================== > > From: "B. Mitchell Loebel" > Subject: Silicon Valley Entrepreneur's Connection - Dec. 11th > Meeting Notice > > Reminder ... > > This is your notice for the Monday, December 11th (TONIGHT) meeting > of the Silicon Valley Entrepreneur's Connection. Please see the > attached Acrobat file for additional information including directions > to the meeting site (Sun Microsystems, 901 San Antonio Rd., Palo > Alto). Important -- please notify us immediately by email if you are > unable to read the attachment. > > BSD OS or Linux ... Which? Why? > > Not long ago, Microsoft's Windows xx was the OS to beat. Linux > successfully stepped up to the plate. Now we hear other voices from > within the Open Source community ... more servers are running BSD > than Linux and the latest Mac OS is based on BSD! (Which of the > several strains of BSD, by the way?) So what did Linux do right > and/or what did the BSD community do wrong such that Linux became the > perceived leader? > > We asked John Sokol, CEO, Enumera to help us unscramble the > confusion. We asked him to to tell us how he feels that BSD is > superior to Linux. We asked him to tell us about the development > projects currently in progress and who are the players. John is well > qualified to help us ... he wrote some of the important early BSD > code. > > If BSD is truly "one down" in the Open Source community, then it > represents an important entrepreneurial opportunity. Let's all find > out more. > > The main meeting starts at 7:30PM (stragglers beware - no entry after > 8PM!) and a discussion of member projects currently underway and > other issues of interest to entrepreneurs begins at 9:15PM (important > business opportunities are often discussed). Adding to your > knowledge, planning entry into the field, beginning a new enterprise? > This is the meeting! > > B. Mitchell Loebel > > Executive Director > The Silicon Valley Entrepreneur's Connection 408 264-2068 > > CEO, CTO > Multinode Microsystems Corporation 408 264-2068 > > 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