Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:50:29 +0100 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd.com Message-ID: <1108126229.4084.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050211122632.99069G-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050211122632.99069G-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 12:41 +0000, Robert Watson wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Julio Capote wrote: > > > I think that the entire point of an IT deptartment, is to provide that > > "geek abstraction"; no CEO goes to www.linux.com and decides to go with > > linux for thier infastructure. They ask thier IT deptartment to make > > those decisions. On the same token, no small business owner/executive is > > going to goto www.freebsd.com and download an iso and install it on all > > thier servers based on some marketing hype. Sites like www.redhat.com > > are an exception because they are indeed a commercial entity that sells > > services/products based on Linux, Freebsd has no such entity. > > I don't know if I buy into "FreeBSD.com" or not, but I do buy into the > idea that what we need to do is provide ammunition for IT departments that > want to promote FreeBSD in their organization. I.e., white papers on > FreeBSD as an effective solution, a professional front page that they can > point at and say "Look, this is real", and material to help third party > CDROM and support vendors provide FreeBSD support to their clients. The > trick will be finding the right balance in not hiding the fact that one of > the greatest assets of FreeBSD is that it's driven by developers who are > also consumers, but provides help to people who want to sell FreeBSD as > the professional product that it is. > > An idea that's been thrown around by a number of people at various points > is to produce a set of short, professional-looking, white papers on > FreeBSD use in various environments -- FreeBSD in the computation cluster, > FreeBSD as an enterprise mail solution, FreeBSD for web clusters, FreeBSD > as the foundation for an appliance, and so on. Something that an IT > department can take to their director/etc saying "This is a recognized > solution -- it works for these people, it will work for us". > > Robert N M Watson I'm actually busy with a couple of whitepapers for some of these subject for work. I'll see if I can come up with a convincing layout and perhaps if others contribute, we can get an officially endorsed site. We do need something to show that FreeBSD is a powerful tool in commercial areas, and I agree that a site to show that is a good solution. Especially if we have backing from the kind folk from the FreeBSD core :) Kind regards, Devon H. O'Dell
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