Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:20:08 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Cc: advocacy@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: List of big names ... Message-ID: <3DEBDC98.FB733674@mindspring.com> References: <20021201023429.G6214-100000@hub.org> <200212021246.48260.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
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Johnson David wrote: > Do we need big names? "Big names" are a marketing tool: nothing more, and nothing less. > Do we really need a user base that insists on using what the > Joneses are using? If "the Joneses" are using FreeBSD, then yes. As in any marketing, the ends justify the means. It doesn't really matter *why* someone picks FreeBSD over another OS, only that they *do so*. > The "everyone" that's falling behind Linux are just a handful of > mega-corporations. When you look at small corporations and > businesses, there are quite a few that use FreeBSD instead of Linux For the purposes of this discussion, the "small corporations" you are referring to are "big names". > My ISP is one of them. But announcing my ISP in a list to impress > corporate bigwigs isn't going to impress anyone. Sure it is. A happy reference account is a happy reference account. This is not like we are trying to convince IBM, or GM, or Chevron to switch to FreeBSD... he isn't trying to reference into a huge corporation, he's trying to reference into a small company that's looking at FreeBSD as an embedded systems platform. The best reference accounts for any company are (1) Successful companies in the same market, and (2) Successful companies that are larger than the company in question, since all companies expect to grow, and want to know what they are going to be growing into won't make them change their decision later. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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