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Brian J. McGovern wrote:
> 
> (Note to Webmaster@parasoft - This is in response to Jordan Hubbard posting
> about your companies request for interest in its profiling tools for FreeBSD.
> I thought it might be good reading for whoever is handling user responses to
> their queries. Could you please forward this to them? Thank you. - BJM)
> 
> Jordan,
>         I suppose I could just as easily send this email to them as to you,
> but I think the mailing list is a good sounding board for anyone considering
> writing commercial code for FreeBSD (or any OS for that matter).
> 
>         The problem of commercial software becomes the great chicken and
> the egg problem... People who write software don't want to create a new product
> for a platform, until they know they have a market for the product. The problem
> is, they won't have a market until the product is done.
> 
>         As a good example, in many cases, I've never been able to wedge
> FreeBSD in to a commercial application, simply because most managers feel
> its "not a commercial grade product". Unfortunately, since no one will give
> it a try, it will never become one because "no one else is using it, so
> how good can it be?". 

some examples..

we're using FreeBSD for our system..
projected sales into the many thousands..

Vicor are using FreeBSD for a large project
 (read many millions of dollars)

TRW are using freeBSD for similar "backend" 
anonimous processing servers.

I'd suggest that all three of those companies would want to 
buy this if it is as good as it says, because it pays for itself
if they save 2 days of work looking for stupid coding mistakes..

Remember that for normal apps, we can run linux binaries fine..
it's things that are more machine specific that we need our own ports.
so for commercial apps, yuo can use things like empress databases ...