From owner-freebsd-www Fri Nov 28 09:20:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA25562 for www-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 09:20:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-www) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA25554 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 09:20:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from francisco@natserv.com) Received: from localhost (slip-32-100-111-103.ny.us.ibm.net [32.100.111.103]) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA15743; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 12:19:38 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711281719.MAA15743@federation.addy.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Ted Kenney" , "www@FreeBSD.org" Date: Fri, 28 Nov 97 12:19:13 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.95a For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Ads in www.freebsd.org (was Re: database) Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 28 Nov 1997 08:51:27 -0800, Ted Kenney wrote: >We would also have a link to your site from the opening page of our >site, telling visitors about this offer. I hope they go for it. I for one would like to try it. Just don't have the $495. Moreover many of the other things you have as separate products should probably be integrated. For instance the space reclamation utility should not be separate (my opinion). >We'd make this offer for a limited time. It might be two weeks or so. Too short. You need some time for people to see the ad. If you are concerned about too many people getting copies then just make a determined number of copies available (i.e. the first 50 to respond). Depending on how the offer goes you may want to extend it by having a discount instead of free. I am sure many FreeBSD users would like to try your database, just don't have the money. >Are you interested? I think that it would be helpful to have ads in www.freebsd.org for vendors that support FreeBSD. Newcomers may not even know about the "gallery" section for a while. If they saw ads with a little subheader like: "Support FreeBSD friendly vendors. See Gallery for list" This would be an indication that there are companies putting resources to develop FreeBSD software and/or running their operations (i.e. ISPs) on FreeBSD.