From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Aug 5 17:41:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from genesis.setjmp.net (worldrecovery.org [208.13.245.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD81155C8; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 17:41:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eric@cfpower.com) Received: from Apophis (eric@[10.0.0.193]) by genesis.setjmp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA26963; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 20:41:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from eric@cfpower.com) Message-ID: <002501bedfa4$3f7eae90$c100000a@cfpower.com> Reply-To: "Eric A. Griff" From: "Eric A. Griff" To: "Nik Clayton" Cc: References: <37A8F8C7.F5333380@softweyr.com> <19990805190745.A37633@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Subject: Re: advocacy site Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 20:38:13 -0400 Organization: CFPower MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: Nik Clayton To: Wes Peters Cc: Mike Hoskins ; Alex Zepeda ; Seth ; Donald Wilde ; Gregory Sutter ; Jim Mock ; Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 2:07 PM Subject: Re: advocacy site > On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 08:36:55PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > > Settled? Now maybe we can move beyond placing blame, and actually start > > > working on the new site/integration. > > > > We're getting lots of news links lately. A "FreeBSD in the News" page > > would be a good starting point. > > http://www.freebsd.org/news/press.html > Cool. I looked. Though, where are equivelent linux pages to compare? I assume we need much more to compare (not that this is impossible), in fact it may be easy to get rolling. That's where linux is hitting. They've just created a niche where some corporate likes are in a frenzy over it (not necessarily with logic involved). Put a little logic into them, on there terms, and they might divert.. We need that whole page full, for a month.. I think that's where linux is at... That's where companies like Oracle, Allaire, among others decide to work with a particular OS. The biggest question they are asking is, How much will it make. Truth is, long term, FreeBSD would likely make them more, since they'd have more customers satisfied do to there systems running on a stable, and affordable OS. Allaire for example, jumps on $$. Sun paid them to make the Solaris version available. I believe a similiar situation occured for HPUX. And they are riding the Linux Buz to some linux support, that will eventually lead to a full blown version of ColdFusion for linux. I guess Jeremy Allaire has a "I love linux" bumper sticker, however when I was in Cambridge last, I didn't have time to find out.. That could equate to 's/linux/$$/' Of course, in the $$ argument, we have 2 things in our corner 1) BSD license, and 2) Stability. That BSD license needs to be sold more =) Thank you for your 2 minutes, Eric A. Griff , http://www.setjmp.com setjmp Software Your source for custom 181 Genesee Street Software Solutions. Suite 504 Utica, NY 13501 ICQ# 28146852 Office: (315) 734-1668 Extension 205 Home: (315) 495-2385 (seldom) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message