From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 1 14:07:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C94C16A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 14:07:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp4.pacifier.net (smtp4.pacifier.net [64.255.237.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79ECA43D1D for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 14:07:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from charles@coppersoftware.com) Received: from COPPERMAWXP (ip168.gte250.dsl-acs2.sea.iinet.com [209.20.250.168]) by smtp4.pacifier.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B56A86A832 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 14:07:02 -0800 (PST) From: "Charles Oppermann" To: Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 14:07:01 -0800 Organization: Copper Software MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2096 In-Reply-To: <20040401103423.GA30825@pasternak.w.lub.pl> Thread-Index: AcQX1b7QMtMJVXXAR8CgdUv9oYD5uAAUOXxA Message-Id: <20040401220702.B56A86A832@smtp4.pacifier.net> Subject: RE: BSD Success Stories X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 22:07:03 -0000 >> Roger and everyone - don't get me wrong, but as I already wrote it somewhere: I am quite tired of "Yahoo runs FreeBSD" advocacy. In the "ancient" times, their success story was very important for FreeBSD, as it clearly showed, that they would be unable to accomplish their task the same way, as they did it with FreeBSD - Linux was too immature at that time. << I too wondered about Yahoo and FreeBSD. I guess when I hear the association made, is that implying that FreeBSD is being used for development internally, or intranet servers? When my browser connects to a yahoo.com server, what platform is that server running? If it's FreeBSD, that's a huge deal. If it's a hodgepodge of platforms that serve up yahoo.com content, then is there any idea of percentage that FreeBSD or others have? Never mind - I just found netcraft.com. Yep, Yahoo runs FreeBSD on it's servers. Now, what I found very enlightening was the uptime statistics. In a ranking of sites with the highest average uptimes, BSD owns the list. FreeBSD runs on 7 of the top 25 sites for average uptime. BSD/OS runs on other 18. #5 is amedas.wni.co.jp has been running FreeBSD continually for 1,612 days. That's nearly 4 and half years! Charles Oppermann, charles@coppersoftware.com, http://weblogs.asp.net/chuckop/