Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:34:44 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Observations from Germany Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912162114590.21150-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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Hi everyone, one question of high interest for me (and I think for the open source community) is about what vendors and purchasers offer. I see that SuSE does a good job in Germany. SuSE Linux is nowadays offered by large purchasers and mail-order-houses like Comtech (a large country-wide PC hardware vendor) or Conrad Elektronik (a large mail-order-house selling electronic components, hardware, consumer electronics etc.) Transtec, an approved hardware vendor offering anything from traditional UNIX workstation accessories to printers and PC hardware, sells Intel Linux servers ready to use SuSE Linux. On the one hand, I welcome this trend. Some years ago, commercial vendors seemed to move exclusively to the Windows systems. On the other hand, I would much more like to see FreeBSD in that context than SuSE Linux (especially *SuSE* Linux since this distribution frightens everyone with some real Unix experience). I'm rather interested to hear something about the corresponding situation in other countries, for example in the USA or Japan or Australia or Russia or France or ... - I must stop here since the list would grow to much. Really thanks for any response! // // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _____= __=20 // Gesellschaft f=FCr wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __= / _ \ // Datenverarbeitung mbH G=D6ttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/= // / // Am Fa=DFberg, D-37077 G=D6ttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___= /____/=20 // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----= - // http://www.freebsd.org // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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