Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:54:13 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: Chris Coleman <chris@bbcc.ctc.edu>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gateway Computers Message-ID: <199902200354.TAA09901@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:34:21 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.990219223206.384B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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>I emailed three computer companies: Gateway, Dell and Micron, asking for a >quote for a developer machine. I described essentially a high-end PC >workstation-class machine, and on the list of requirements was FreeBSD. I >heard back from none of the companies. One of them, I know that the email >was read because I received a CC of an email asking someone to address my >needs, not that they were ever addressed. > >I must admit, I was hoping for at least a *rejection*... As I'm looking >to buy a machine or two in about 5 months, I figured I'd start asking >around now to drum up support, but things don't look great. > >If someone digs up contacts for these kinds of things, I'd be glad to call >them in my effort to find some workstations. I've been working with Drew Meyer at Micron, 800 964 2766, extension 31329. He knows me by name, so you may wish to mention it. He knows about FreeBSD (from me), but doesn't know enough to be able to tell you whether a particular piece of hardware will work with it. Background: Micron has escentially given WC CDROM a NetFRAME 9201, which is their highest-end enterprise server, for the next generation wcarchive. It arrived yesterday and is sitting in my garage until I can find time to get it configured and shipped out to San Francisco. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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