From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 15:56:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29916 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:56:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29510 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:55:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA10341; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:55:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:55:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Kerri Kraft cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISP Marketing Statistics In-Reply-To: <356079F6.61831481@pop.vfi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 18 May 1998, Kerri Kraft wrote: > I am a Product Marketing Manager for Internet Commerce at VeriFone. I > am looking for market statistics. Specifically, of the ISPs in the US, > what is the number (or %) of FreeBSD installations and can that number > be broken down by local, regional, and national ISPs? I have no idea, but you might ask in isp@freebsd.org. They're a bunch of ISPs that run FreeBSD. > Is Linux considered a competitor? How do you compare with them in the > ISP market place? I hope not. Linux has some major scalability problems -- it dies under heavy load. FreeBSD, on the other hand, is engineered for precisely those types of situations. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message