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Date:      Tue, 18 May 1999 00:24:18 +0200
From:      Thomas Keusch <thomas@visionaire.ping.de>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, US FreeBSD Chat Mailing List <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: List of Companies/Corporations Using FreeBSD ...
Message-ID:  <19990518002418.A2208@dante.visionaire.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905171307280.446-100000@thelab.hub.org>; from The Hermit Hacker on Mon, May 17, 1999 at 01:09:10PM -0300
References:  <19990517171259.A53217@bitbox.follo.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905171307280.446-100000@thelab.hub.org>

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On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 01:09:10PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> > > HotMail switch from Solaris to FreeBSD?  Last I heard, they tried to
> > > switch to NT and then moved back to Solaris...
> > 
> > For the mail servers, yes.   They use FreeBSD for their web servers.
> 
> Ah, okay...is it just me, or shoudl this sort of detail be included on
> those pages?  IMHO, I'd rather know that company X is using FreeBSD for a
> specific purpose, which would be more believable then selling FreeBSD as
> just being "used by company X", which could be no more then the guy who
> added the entry using it for his desktop...

I think some page like the one of the "Mission Critical Linux" Survey
would be a good idea..? Have a look at:

http://www.linux.or.jp/~mkubo/mc-doc/

Have a look at the survey results.

-- 

 thomas.



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