Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 13:33:03 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Coleman <chris@bbcc.ctc.edu> To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gateway Computers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990220133046.16518A-100000@bbcc.ctc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990219223206.384B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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I have been working with Fritz Fitzgibbons of Gateway, he as gotten the ball rolling a little. 1.877.803.1947 Try giving him a call. Tell him I sent you. He is the Washington State Account Executive. -Chris Coleman On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Robert Watson wrote: > > 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. > > On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Chris Coleman wrote: > > > I just spoke with my contacts at gateway. We are one of their major > > accounts, so they do take some notice of us. I asked them about shipping > > computers with FreeBSD installed, instead of WinNT. My contact is going > > to look up the person in the engineering department that I would need to > > send "Evaluation Copies" of FreeBSD to. > > > > (Jordan, I might need some FreeBSD CD's soon :-) > > > > She said that she hasn't had any demand for alternative OS's and didn't > > see it on their immediate software road map. > > > > Well, it looks like it is time to generate some demand, or at least some > > notice. > > > > You might suggest to your contacts at Gateway, (if you don't have any, > > make some) that it would be really great if they would ship their web > > servers with FreeBSD. > > > > Or, suggest that you would like to see "FreeBSD Certified" on their web > > pages. > > > > Since Dell is offering Linux, its probably a good time to focus on Gateway > > to get them to offer FreeBSD. > > > > -Chris > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > > > > Robert N Watson > > robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ > PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C > > Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ > TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ > SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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