Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 03:20:48 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Mark Rowlands" <mark.rowlands@minmail.net>, "David Xu" <bsddiy@21cn.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: BSDi Acquired by Embedded Computing Firm Wind River Message-ID: <001d01c0be83$3fbb3300$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <01040611594102.73296@pcmarpxy.tninet.se>
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And you consider yourselves "small to medium business?" Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mark Rowlands >Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 3:00 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; David Xu; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: BSDi Acquired by Embedded Computing Firm Wind River > > >On Thursday 05 April 2001 09:46, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >Ted sed : >> The big danger of doing the server focus thing, though, is that you >> can end up being marginalized. Look at what's going on with the >> commercial UNIX's like Solaris and others. Every year those OS's >> get higher, and higher, and higher end. It's getting very difficult >> to buy a Sun product these days that will work out-of-the-box as a >> small to medium business server, and still be cost-effective. > >Funny, we just bought 20 Netra servers at a few thousand a pop to >replace a >bunch of big iron costing megabucks a pop! :-) .. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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