Re: Seeking list of "commercial companies that still have large scale FreeBSD deployment"
Hi David Wolfskill! On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:46:43 -0700; David Wolfskill wrote about 'Seeking list of "commercial companies that still have large scale FreeBSD deployment"': > My employer has been using HP machines a fair amount over the last > couple of years (that I know of); I just received the following request > from a contact in IT: > | I had a chat with our HP support team today try to get better > | FreeBSD support on RAID controller in DL180. One thing that they > | requested is to see ifwe can provide them a list of commercial > | companies that still have large scale of FreeBSD deployment. They > | mentioned that Yahoo is gradually moving away from FreeBSD. Do you > | have some names that we can provide them? The ideais they can take > | the list back to HP and try to argue for more FreeBSD support. > | They hired a guy to do FreeBSD support, but he left HP and went to > | Google with his FreeBSD knowledge. > Any help? Thanks! yandex.ru has a large scale FreeBSD deployment. -- WBR, Vadim Goncharov. ICQ#166852181 mailto:vadim_nucli...@mail.ru [Moderator of RU.ANTI-ECOLOGY][FreeBSD][http://antigreen.org][LJ:/nuclight] ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Seeking list of "commercial companies that still have large scale FreeBSD deployment"
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:03:10PM -0700, Jared Barneck wrote: > David, > > If HP is not really going to support FreeBSD, My understanding of the context of the request was that my correspondent in IT had been asked by someone in HP to help provide a business case for HP to spend more (perhaps in a "Mad Tea Party" sense) resources supporting FreeBSD. > then maybe Dell is a better way to go... My employer already has quite a few HP machines that were purchased with the express intent of running FreeBSD. The decision was not mine. Indeed, I am preparing to start testing an alternative hardware configuration (and vendor). > ... Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. pgprUI0H3FzG9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Seeking list of "commercial companies that still have large scale FreeBSD deployment"
David, If HP is not really going to support FreeBSD, then maybe Dell is a better way to go as Dell's purchase of Kace will keep them supporting FreeBSD for quite some time. Though because Kace is appliance based, Dell only has to make it work on a few Dell servers. It actually surprises me when people choose GPL-based Operating Systems for appliances over the BSD Licensed software. It seems like such a licensing issue to sell an appliance with a GPL product when an OS that is just as good or better is free of those licensing issues. Jared Barneck ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Seeking list of "commercial companies that still have large scale FreeBSD deployment"
> - Original Message > From: David Wolfskill > To: advoc...@freebsd.org > Sent: Wed, September 15, 2010 5:46:43 PM > Subject: Seeking list of "commercial companies that still have large scale <-- snip --> David, An email came through, I thought right here on this mailing list, with a list of the most reliable hosting companies. It referenced this link. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/08/11/most-reliable-hosting-company-sites-in-july-2010.html Five of the most reliable hosting companies (the top 4 and #10) use FreeBSD. I guess they might not want to use HP if HP is not going to support FreeBSD. There is Kace, which is an appliance that runs FreeBSD, but it was bought by Dell, so it will probably only ever be installed on Dells. Maybe HP should partner up with iXSystems to have them do FreeBSD support and development for them. Sorry, I wasn't of much help, Jared Barneck ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
