Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 11:52:31 +0200 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@offmyserver.com> To: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg <listsub@401.cx>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, Matt Olander <matt@offmyserver.com> Subject: Re: BSD Success Stories Message-ID: <406BE65F.9030709@offmyserver.com> In-Reply-To: <406BDCD0.9010404@401.cx> References: <20040331174544.B577@dru.domain.org> <406BDCD0.9010404@401.cx>
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Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > Do we have anyone at Yahoo! that could write something up for us? Yahoo! > must without doubt be one of the biggest feathers in FreeBSD's hat. > > I know that distributed.net runs FreeBSD. It would be nice to have > something from them that shows that BSD can handle massive SQL databases > for those that like that. I know that a lot of people for some reason > turns to linux/MySQL when it comes to databases. Showing that a project > like distributed.net with their huge databases uses FreeBSD should > convince atleast some people to take another look at BSD. > > Does anyone know anyone inside Yahoo! or distributed.net? > > -- > R Not to mention Juniper, NASA, Envivio, About.com and many others. I'm sure Matt can get our customers to write a quick testimonial for this, being the great businessman he is :) Dru: is there a more concrete deadline than ``fairly quickly''? Kind regards, Devon H. O'Dell
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