From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri May 8 07:36:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA01499 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 07:36:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA01481 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 07:36:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA10970; Fri, 8 May 1998 07:35:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: dwilde1@ibm.net cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NW+IOP Presentation In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 May 1998 07:21:55 PDT." <35531503.6A81283D@ibm.net> Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 07:35:40 -0700 Message-ID: <10966.894638140@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It went reasonably well, gave out half of the CD's. Participation wasn't > great, auditorium was only half full (~45). My talk was well received, > but I didn't sense a lot of movement from the 'suits' portion of the > crowd. What, I have to learn to do it myself? I can't just reboot and > solve all my problems? John Gallant (Sr. Editor of NWW) was > definitely interested, he asked for an eval copy. It takes serious finesse to sell Unix, no doubt about it. You're going up against some major FUD spread by very well-paid advertising agencies and Unix's own weaknesses where it comes to application support and configuration framework. Ah well, as Nietzsche said, what does not kill us only makes us stronger. :-) > Out on the floor, the main comment I got was that we need to find a way > to generate hard numbers. Our first target need not be W-NT, but if we > can show comparable numbers of servers or seats to an HP or Sun or AIX, > we will be on their radar screens for serious products like Netective This will always be a finger-in-the-wind task at best given that we offer free downloads. :-( - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message