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Date:      Sun, 1 Dec 2002 10:46:45 -0800
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com>
Cc:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: List of big names ...
Message-ID:  <20021201184645.GD60177@vectors.cx>
In-Reply-To: <3DEA5425.4050007@mac.com>

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Please take this to advocacy. This banter doesn't belong on the
questions list.

# Adam


>> (12.01.2002 @ 1025 PST): paul beard said, in 1.3K: <<
> 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" ...
> >
> 
> Apple seems to think pretty highly of FreeBSD. And there are the 
> oft-repeated rumors that WinNT/2000/XP all use the BSD TCP stack.
> 
> Having used both, I would never choose Linux over FreeBSD.
> 
> >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?
> >
> 
> F5 Systems based their load balancers/switches on BSD and a 
> follow-on company started by one of the founders (Ahaza Systems, 
> now defunct) was going to build IPv6-aware switching gear based on 
> FreeBSD.
> 
> -- 
> Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 /
> paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400
> 
> weblog @ <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/>;
> 
> She missed an invaluable opportunity to give him a look that you could
> have poured on a waffle ...
> 
> 
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>> end of "Re: List of big names ..." from paul beard <<


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Adam Weinberger
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Bayer Berkeley	>>	adam.weinberger.b@bayer.com
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