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Date:      Sun, 01 Dec 2002 10:25:41 -0800
From:      paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: List of big names ...
Message-ID:  <3DEA5425.4050007@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021201023429.G6214-100000@hub.org>
References:  <20021201023429.G6214-100000@hub.org>

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Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> Other then that I know Yahoo! uses FreeBSD ... is there a list 
> that anyone is maintain about who is using it?  I've been
> having discussions with a partner for awhile now about whether
> we should launch a product with a base OS of linux vs freebsd
> ... and its tiring to try and argue against "but, nobody is
> accepting FreeBSD ... everyone (IBM, HP, Sun, etc) is falling
> behind Linux" ...
> 

Apple seems to think pretty highly of FreeBSD. And there are the 
oft-repeated rumors that WinNT/2000/XP all use the BSD TCP stack.

Having used both, I would never choose Linux over FreeBSD.

> Do we have *anything* ... case studies or the like, from big 
> names that have decided *for* FreeBSD over Linux, with a sort
> of 'why' discusion?
> 

F5 Systems based their load balancers/switches on BSD and a 
follow-on company started by one of the founders (Ahaza Systems, 
now defunct) was going to build IPv6-aware switching gear based on 
FreeBSD.

-- 
Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 /
paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400

weblog @ <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/>;

She missed an invaluable opportunity to give him a look that you could
have poured on a waffle ...


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