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Date:      Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:44:24 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), mike@smith.net.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Walnut Creek, Where Are You? 
Message-ID:  <199902172244.OAA01220@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Feb 1999 17:45:55 GMT." <199902171745.KAA15904@usr07.primenet.com> 

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> > > 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.
> > 
> > > c) Give us more money, or see a) again.
> > 
> > For what would more money be used?
> 
> The implication is that this is the mysterious "other platform" that
> Jordan keeps referring to, and that one of the things Mike was hired
> to do was "work on the port".

No.  I have too much on my plate altogether already.

> I think you guys are talking about different things.
> 
> I think that Mike is talking about the port, and Brett is talking
> about selling IBM on FreeBSD.

No, I'm talking about making FreeBSD run on IBM's x86 systems first, so 
that we can then sell them on it.

-- 
\\  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




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