From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 26 09:08:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA23722 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 09:08:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA23539 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 09:07:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (localhost.softweyr.com [127.0.0.1]) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA12226; Tue, 26 May 1998 10:07:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <356AE8B6.247A455F@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 10:07:18 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com CC: Nicole , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD A Solution For Business References: <8677.895915412@time.cdrom.com> <19980523132128.D22591@mooseriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Josef Grosch wrote: > YES!! we should focus on making FreeBSD _THE_ server OS of choice on a > selected range of hardware. We already are making very good progress in > this area. Pushing FreeBSD as the choice OS for a low-end workstation is > also an area where can get a lot of traction. Agreed - there are some areas of traditional UNIX workstation use where FreeBSD shines. I'm not sure these areas count for enough installations for "the FreeBSD community" to really focus on; this would probably best be left to "value-added partners" who understand these application domains and can prep FreeBSD to be the best workstation system to use in these areas. For instance, the freely available embedded system RTEMS has used SunOS as their preferred development system for quite some time, but many of their users around the world have been seeking a less expensive dev workstation. They were leaning towards Solaris x86, since they already have Solaris included in their toolset, but I've gotten one of their engineers to look at FreeBSD. Since their development tools are GNU- based, FreeBSD is a simple platform to host their tools on; they pretty much compile "out of the box." This opportunity has a chance to get is some pretty good exposure in the embedded development market, RTEMS is gaining fame rapidly. It may also serve to get wider awareness of FreeBSD as a non-realtime embedded OS, the perfect partner to RTEMS for embedded work. So, while I'd like to see the embedded uses of FreeBSD advertised more, I don't think they should take over the group consciousness of the FreeBSD community. As long as the core team focuses on making FreeBSD solid and fast, it will suit the needs of embedded developers, both as a workstation and as an embedded server os, quite nicely. This is also why I reject the "focus on one area" thread running in this list. A better goal would be to form teams around business areas FreeBSD can address, and have sombody coordinate all of these so we have a consistent public "look and feel." It would be nice to get a few marketroids with an interest in FreeBSD involved; their input could be VERY helpful in terms of helping get the message across: "FreeBSD - the power to serve YOUR BUSINESS." ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message