Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:56:45 +0100 (CET) From: Christian Kratzer <ck-lists@cksoft.de> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org> Subject: Re: List of big names ... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212011853360.1345-100000@hirvi.cksoft.de> In-Reply-To: <20021201023429.G6214-100000@hub.org>
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Hi, On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Other then that I know Yahoo! uses FreeBSD ... is there a list that anyone > is maintain about who is using it? I've been having discussions with a > partner for awhile now about whether we should launch a product with a > base OS of linux vs freebsd ... and its tiring to try and argue against > "but, nobody is accepting FreeBSD ... everyone (IBM, HP, Sun, etc) is > falling behind Linux" ... > > Do we have *anything* ... case studies or the like, from big names that > have decided *for* FreeBSD over Linux, with a sort of 'why' discusion? on the embedded side there is the Nokia/CheckPoint hardware firewall applicaces. Nokia uses a hacked FreeBSD 2.x base system to host the checkpoint firewall for which checkpoint did a port only available with this nokia bundle. Also junipers internet core routers are based on FreeBSD. Greetings Christian -- CK Software GmbH Christian Kratzer, Schwarzwaldstr. 31, 71131 Jettingen Email: ck@cksoft.de Phone: +49 7452 889-135 Open Software Solutions, Network Security Fax: +49 7452 889-136 FreeBSD spoken here! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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