Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:38:33 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Walnut Creek, Where Are You? Message-ID: <199902172138.NAA00766@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:18:51 MST." <4.1.19990216221552.04027680@mail.lariat.org>
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> At 07:58 PM 2/16/99 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > a) Fuck Off. > > This does not seem like it would be a particularly > productive activity. It would prevent you impacting on other peoples' productivity. > > b) I have been working on this since mid-late last year. See a). > > And what has IBM said? Apparently, they are approaching SEVERAL > Linux vendors, including small ones. But there's not a peep > about FreeBSD. We can't run on anything other than their NetFinity systems at the moment, and we are still trying to complete limited qualification on them. We run OK on about half their range at the moment; the other half suffer from the "initialising fxp0 hangs" bug. > > c) Give us more money, or see a) again. > > For what would more money be used? Employing one or more developers to extend/fix our code to the point where we properly supported IBM's hardware, so that we could obtain qualification and thus move to the next stage. At the moment, we're listed as a partially supported but not qaulified software item in their database - I'm told that this means that if an IBM customer asks a NetFinity rep about us, he will be able to point them in our direction. To get to the point where IBM would even be *able* to ship FreeBSD, we need to run properly on their hardware. I've been trying to move the remaining issues for some time now. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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