Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:55:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Kerri Kraft <kerri@vfi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISP Marketing Statistics Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518155353.9951Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <356079F6.61831481@pop.vfi.com>
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On Mon, 18 May 1998, Kerri Kraft wrote: > I am a Product Marketing Manager for Internet Commerce at VeriFone. I > am looking for market statistics. Specifically, of the ISPs in the US, > what is the number (or %) of FreeBSD installations and can that number > be broken down by local, regional, and national ISPs? I have no idea, but you might ask in isp@freebsd.org. They're a bunch of ISPs that run FreeBSD. > Is Linux considered a competitor? How do you compare with them in the > ISP market place? I hope not. Linux has some major scalability problems -- it dies under heavy load. FreeBSD, on the other hand, is engineered for precisely those types of situations. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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