From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Oct 28 13:58:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D537A37B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:58:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from piwebs.com (t-indiv5-88.athome.tue.nl [131.155.241.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC50443E3B for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:58:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from avleeuwen@piwebs.com) Received: (qmail 1212 invoked from network); 28 Oct 2002 21:58:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 192.168.0.105) (192.168.0.105) by 0 with SMTP; 28 Oct 2002 21:58:11 -0000 From: Arjan van Leeuwen (by way of Arjan van Leeuwen ) Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux For Managers Part 2 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 22:58:10 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 To: advocacy@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200210282258.10828.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 28 October 2002 22:42, Derek Barrett wrote: > What Postgres had alot of success with, was they basically just asked > everyone in the community that was using it, to come back and let them > know. This was awesome, because what came back was very surprising, we > learned that Cisco, BASF, and the .INFO domains all use Postgres. Postgres > recently beat out Oracle (there were about 15 firms and they all were > proposing to us Oracle) to host the entire .ORG registry. > > I feel that FreeBSD desparately needs to update its case studies. We should > follow the Postgres example. Heck, I'll even set something up like the > Postgres Advocacy site, if people want to let everyone know that their > company is using FreeBSD. I'm currently working (with the support and cooperation of some other people) on a FreeBSD PR site, as discussed earlier here on -advocacy, which will debut (hopefully) on Wednesday. We could do something like this on the site - keep things on one site to make things simpler :). What do you think? Best regards, Arjan avleeuwen@piwebs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message