Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:00:56 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Embedded in 3rd Party Applications and Appliances? Message-ID: <200708150200.l7F20u3p006875@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <3EACC1B6-8DF9-4FD2-8BE1-41E2E5C686DB@splunk.com> (message from Pervaiz Choudhry on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:25:02 -0700) References: <32689E5C-7A17-42EA-A782-F7B310CDD54B@splunk.com> <44y7ge19cw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <3EACC1B6-8DF9-4FD2-8BE1-41E2E5C686DB@splunk.com>
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>> We are trying determine cost and benefits of supporting FreeBSD
>> platform for OEM market. Does any one have data on the installbase
>> for FreeBSD "Embedded" in 3rd party applications and appliances? We
>> are looking for ball park numbers.
>
> There is no requirement to tell anyone else that you're using FreeBSD
> in a product, so some people don't. As a result, I would be highly
> suspicious of any numbers anyone *could* come up with (I would expect
> such numbers to miss a lot of applications).
>
> A better approach in my opinion would be to look at specific use
> cases; the FreeBSD web site includes some information of that sort.
> One example not listed there is that Juniper Networks routers control
> plane ("JunOS", I think) is based on FreeBSD.
I missed the first question, but we are using a Taiwanese remote
access system (a box with 32 modems inside to receive incoming dial-up
connections) based on FreeBSD (2.something I guess) as well as a
satellite receiver from UDcats (www.udcat.com) based on FreeBSD too.
Olivier
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