From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 16 04:05:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA17861 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 04:05:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obiwan.psinet.net.au (obiwan.psinet.net.au [203.19.28.59]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA17837 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 04:05:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by obiwan.psinet.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA06586; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 18:52:35 +0800 (WST) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 18:52:35 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Darren Reed , "David S. Miller" , fullermd@narcissus.ml.org, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another Linux Religious war (was Re: Commercial vendors registry) In-Reply-To: <25750.861125416@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I can't see any upper management person ever taking a liking to anything > > that is available "freely" on the 'net for mission critical stuff. And > > I don't mean your < 100 people small companies, but big organisations > > with real budgets. > > You may be surprised. > A company that handles networking all the car dealers around Australia approached us for internet connectivity (weirdly enough, they are upstairs from us :). They run digital equipment and VMS exclusively on ALL their machines. Their link between their internal network and the internet is a lone FreeBSD box. They have no problems running FreeBSD on the box seperating this nice critical network from the rest of the internet :) It handles all their email and web (and soon will become three boxes, one for lot of virtual webserving, one for email and one as a firewall). Just another place where FreeBSD is used. :) Cya Adrian