Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:52:10 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Coleman <chris@bbcc.ctc.edu> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Gateway Computers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990215114551.17470A-100000@bbcc.ctc.edu>
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I just spoke with my contacts at gateway. We are one of their major accounts, so they do take some notice of us. I asked them about shipping computers with FreeBSD installed, instead of WinNT. My contact is going to look up the person in the engineering department that I would need to send "Evaluation Copies" of FreeBSD to. (Jordan, I might need some FreeBSD CD's soon :-) She said that she hasn't had any demand for alternative OS's and didn't see it on their immediate software road map. Well, it looks like it is time to generate some demand, or at least some notice. You might suggest to your contacts at Gateway, (if you don't have any, make some) that it would be really great if they would ship their web servers with FreeBSD. Or, suggest that you would like to see "FreeBSD Certified" on their web pages. Since Dell is offering Linux, its probably a good time to focus on Gateway to get them to offer FreeBSD. -Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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