Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 08:34:42 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Linux emulation != FreeBSD sale (was Re: Netscape browser) Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9903190811210.6689-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <20561.921834857@zippy.cdrom.com>
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With all this talk about Linux emulation I thought I'd share
an experience that I had earlier this week. The company that
I work for uses Netscape's Directory Server product on Solaris
for now, but with a nearly idle Quad CPU Linux box and Netscape
announcing an alpha-quality version of a Linux port there is
serious talk about using it instead. I know the guy who owns
the Linux box and have convinced him to give me a partition or
two on one of the drives to install FreeBSD and try running
this program under emulation. Now to the crux of the problem.
Try as I might I can't get Netscape to record anywhere that
I'm downloading a copy of the Linux version only to run it on
a FreeBSD box. This is very bad! I download the Linux version.
It counts towards Linux sales. Somebody in sales mentions it
to another company and they release a Linux version of their
product because of bloated Linux interest numbers. This happens
again and again, and we arrive at where we are today - Linux
getting all the press and support because
Linux sales = real Linux sales + sales for emulated copies
I don't know the solution to this problem. I do know that
using a Linux product under emulation doesn't do much to bolster
interest (at least not from the company putting out the product)
unless we get the numbers to count in our favor.
-steve
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