From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 25 08:15:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0568116A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:15:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4098143D5C for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:15:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bdaniel7@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 1so390518rny for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:15:27 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=WBEzWf6SYSbROkrgG/JshfAPA2i6jPKU6kTY/YovpIRhdjryMZWmM9KCGIgmJOA1MqonlLpCK4hr/EvOwmAS1NkQCZ5QjMYY51Opl4xyeud/c5O98x6R5RBoc4DUNz+vh3BboTdG8HKcmDiws8NVGa9wdNwVg8AeyktCanWd8o0= Received: by 10.38.206.60 with SMTP id d60mr24618rng; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:15:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.8.19 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:15:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <89b41e470502250015dc17b80@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:15:27 +0200 From: Daniel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <522548025.20050224180220@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <89b41e4705022407542f4feaa9@mail.gmail.com> <89b41e470502240834ba670b1@mail.gmail.com> <522548025.20050224180220@wanadoo.fr> Subject: Re: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:15:29 -0000 On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:02:20 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > > would not these things be worthy of implementing in FreeBSD? this way > > other big companies would use it, pay you guys for it and FreeBSD will > > grow stronger... > > There are other obstacles to deployment of FreeBSD in large > organizations. The main one is a lack of formal, guaranteed support. > This afflicts Linux, also, to some extent, depending on the > distribution. Even for "supported" Linux distributions, the support is > often very limited in comparison to that available for systems such as > Solaris, Windows, or even Mac OS X. > > > making a good OS that runs on cheap, low-end machines is nice, but the > > real money come from companies... > > The problem is that the largest companies need more than just a > technically superior operating system. That's why they are still buying > Solaris and Windows. > well, if a big company pays for support, those money would allow FreeBSD to have some more people (developers or not) focus on giving the support (fixing/answering) while the developers do their job...i believe this is quite natural course of action the reason for the above comments is that i think FreeBSD should come out in light and become more popular, not only in sys admin world, maybe just like Linux; yes, we know that it is used in many critical systems, that it is there, serving, provinding certainty; true, FreeBSD is like "real things just happen, the press doesn't have to talk about it". Dan