Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 19:16:14 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Kevin Lyons <klyons@corserv.corserv.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDi acquisition of Telenet Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000609182155.66154K-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <v04220803b56688f422f5@[195.238.1.121]>
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On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 1:17 PM +0200 2000/6/9, Narvi wrote: > > > IMHO it's pretty clear. They are now a system manufacturer just like sun, > > compaq, ibm or similar. Except they started with the software and then > > bought the hardware arm 8-) > > I sure hope that this means they'll build much nicer looking > hardware. The stuff I've seen on the old Telenet web page looked > pretty ratty, compared to some of the stuff I've seen from Cobalt and > some other vendors (Sun's Netra t1 and the 220R and 420R are okay, > but I'd shoot higher than that). > Cobalt looks cool (and imitates SGI Origin). But to actually get cool looking hardware, one has to (horror! horror!) hire designers. For now they look just as another 'configure your beige box on the web'. Even if the do have black (generica) rackmounted enclosures. > I'm not so worried about how it will perform (although Telenet > doesn't seem to have anything that can compare with how much Dell > crams into their 2450), but it would be nice if we finally had a > vendor in this market that actually built nice-looking hardware. > Agreed. > -- > These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy > ====================================================================== > Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV > Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 > Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels > http://www.skynet.be || Belgium > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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