From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Oct 28 20: 5:30 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 3C09937B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:05:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD4A543E77 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:05:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rootman22@attbi.com) Received: from C595663-A ([12.254.218.35]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021029040526.OLWG3093.sccrmhc01.attbi.com@C595663-A>; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 04:05:26 +0000 Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux For Managers Part 2 From: Joe Warner To: Arjan van Leeuwen Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.org, Linh Pham In-Reply-To: <200210282258.10828.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> References: <200210282258.10828.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-x353VeAHKw2+57AtCgro" X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 28 Oct 2002 21:05:00 -0700 Message-Id: <1035864302.319.71.camel@C595663-A.attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 --=-x353VeAHKw2+57AtCgro Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 14:58, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote: > 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. Postg= res > > 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 sh= ould > > 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. >=20 > I'm currently working (with the support and cooperation of some other peo= ple) > 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 si= te - > keep things on one site to make things simpler :). What do you think? >=20 > Best regards, >=20 > Arjan > avleeuwen@piwebs.com As Arjan just mentioned, we currently have a PR initiative in progress and this thread is evidence enough that there are quite a number of people who feel that FreeBSD needs some help in the area of advocacy and PR. If anyone is interested in helping out, please let me, Arjan or Michael Lucas know or just post to -advocacy. Keep watching -advocacy for related posts. Thanks Joe >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message --=20 Support your local Search and Rescue unit -- get lost. --=-x353VeAHKw2+57AtCgro Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA9vgjsy8v4Vaw+EcoRAr3yAJ9geRk2nzO7IPSC7F61dCHqkCL9BACglmiX zJlgZwSbvXewmR81sG6pHAY= =ZZZG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-x353VeAHKw2+57AtCgro-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message