Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 17:26:03 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD into larget corp. environment? Message-ID: <199701020126.RAA00307@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jan 1997 10:21:24 %2B1030." <199701012351.KAA14264@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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If they are a big corporation they can hire a couple of programmers
for the OS support. Is just that people have to get used to the
notion that they can have control over their OS 8)
Cheers,
Amancio
>From The Desk Of Michael Smith :
>
> 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.)
>
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