Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 13:30:49 -0400 From: Richard Cownie <richard.cownie@axil.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Richard Cownie <richard.cownie@axil.com> Cc: jak@cetlink.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD on 8-way SMP PPro Message-ID: <F9EB5C2CB08CD11184E200A0C95BCF8D123A10@dragon.axil.com>
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Hmm, I probably have to tread carefully here and repeat my disclaimer
that these are my personal views rather than Axil corporate policy.
1) Axil's main focus is building and selling high-end NT servers. As
you'll
see from the website http://www.axil.com, all our marketing is
focused
on NT
2) In the design of the hardware and Bios, we have adhered closely to
the Intel MPS spec and other standards - so *in theory* any and all
well-behaved OS's should work. However, as a relatively small
company
we don't have enough technical people to do extensive testing or
active
support of many different OS's. Ans as you know, if you haven't
tested
it, it doesn't work (usually).
3)Unixware on NX801 definitely does work, and several customers are
running this. So there is a precedent for selling non-NT systems.
If anyone wanted to buy a box to run any other OS (FreeBSD, Linux,
DOS :-), then we'll probably sell the box, while making it clear
that Axil
won't provide support for the OS.
4) Until recently Axil also built SPARC boxes, and much of our
internal development enviornment is still based on
SPARC/Solaris/NFS;
so we don't have any ideological objections to Unix.
So I think it's probably ok to say "some guy at Axil has FreeBSD
running",
which is nothing more or less than the strict truth,as long as you don't
raise
any expectation that corporate Axil is putting big resources into this.
Cheers
Richard Cownie
[]
[] From: Mike Smith [SMTP:mike@smith.net.au]
> Sent: Friday, May 29, 1998 11:01 AM
> To: Richard Cownie
> Cc: Mike Smith; jak@cetlink.net; current@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 8-way SMP PPro
>
> Do Axil have an opinion at all about non-NT operating systems and
> their
> hardware? There's quite a lot of "wow" power in saying to someone
> "this
> guy at Axil has FreeBSD running on one of *these* (points to
> picture)",
> and it really does lend some serious credibility to the project.
> However, it's not the sort of thing that you want to do if Axil
> corporate have a dim view of other operating systems, so I'd prefer to
> be a little careful about it.
>
>
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