From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 1 15:51:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA01393 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 15:51:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA01388 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 15:51:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id KAA14264 for chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 10:21:25 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701012351.KAA14264@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: FreeBSD into larget corp. environment? To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 10:21:24 +1030 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk There's a certain large (multinational) corporate with some not inconsiderable ground-level enthusiasm for using FreeBSD in preference to other less robust, open and harder to maintain/fix operating systems for internal network and security applications. However, like most such entities, management feel that because there's no tangible corporate entity ("somebody to sue if it goes wrong") behind FreeBSD, they can't possibly trust it. (Yes, I think they're stupid too.) Anyway, bottom line is: is there anyone in Australia currently offering paid commercial support (like Cygnus in the USA) for FreeBSD, or planning to in the short-term future? (I won't do any naming of names just yet, but suffice to say that the corporate in question is _big_ - they counter the argument "you never get bugfixes out of Microsoft" with "we do when we lean on them". Their internal intranet is undergoing explosive growth right now, and it would be an excellent win for both sides if something could be done here.) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[