Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 08:52:47 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, fpawlak@execpc.com, kline@tera.tera.com, freebsd@atipa.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enough already! (Re: Why we should support Microsoft...) Message-ID: <199805211552.IAA23124@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 May 1998 08:26:30 PDT." <19980521082629.B25066@mooseriver.com>
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> On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 05:56:41AM -0700, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > At the last BAFUG meeting I had a conversation with the head tech person at > a large ISP here in the bay area know for it's use of FreeBSD. He told me > the story of how microsoft was putting serious pressure on ISPs to drop > Unix in general and switch to NT. microsoft was at the same time going > behind this ISP's back and telling their suppliers and major customers that > this ISP was switching to NT and when were they (the customer) going to > switch to NT. microsoft was then telling this large ISP that all of the > ISP's customers were switching to NT and the customers wanted to know when > was the ISP going to switch. I have heard this from other people and other > ISPs. > It sounds like a good sales strategy can we convince the sales person to switch to FreeBSD! Cheers, Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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