Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 05:09:57 +0000 From: Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl> To: Matt Olander <matt@offmyserver.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rumour Mill on FreeBSD Death Still .... Message-ID: <20030928050957.GA2362@pasternak.w.lub.pl> In-Reply-To: <20030927191304.R41031@knight.ixsystems.net> References: <1064669876.5aee8e20michael.ireland@myrealbox.com> <200309271543.17343.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> <3F75AC6A.1000307@daleco.biz> <20030927183534.GA28212@q.closedsrc.org> <3F760F63.9030705@pacbell.net> <20030928003835.GA29773@pasternak.w.lub.pl> <20030928014041.GB29099@q.closedsrc.org> <20030927191304.R41031@knight.ixsystems.net>
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Matt Olander [Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 07:13:05PM -0700]: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 06:40:41PM -0700, Linh Pham wrote: > > # BTW I'm quite tired of "Yahoo! runs FreeBSD" advocacy. Few years ago, when > > # it was the only dot-com, it was obvious, that it is a point for FreeBSD... > > # but now? I think it's quite pointless. > > > > I agree, it is a bit aged of a statement now. I listed Yahoo! first > > because it's a recognizable name... else we need to have a much better > > list of "clients" :D > > well, we've used the yahoo example many times and I'm more than willing > to keep beating it into the ground to convince enterprise level > customers that other enterprise level companies believe that freebsd is > suitable for the enterprise. Of course, you're right, but someone might say: Who cares about identification string from WWW server? What if those companies host the webpages in other place? Better thing to provide would be some success stories. Who could write them? Sysadmins and developers, who use FreeBSD to do their work. They got it for free, so they could pay back to the community somehow ;) Maybe we should sent some spam-emails across UseNet unix & bsd groups and ask people about their success stories? I am sure there are plenty installations, which perform many important tasks every day... Regards, -- Michal Pasternak :: http://pasternak.w.lub.pl Resistance isn't futile, it's voltage divided by amperage
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