[BSDcert] BSDCert, Advocacy, Cost

[Dru]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Jason Dixon wrote:

> On Mar 18, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Tyler Gee wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Just wanted to chime in on some feelings I have that I have not seen 
>> addressed.
>> 
>> I work for a medium sized company (125 employees) and have been slowly
>> trying to convert my supervisor over to running some BSD-based boxes,
>> mostly for a simple ftp machine, the company intranet, etc.  He has
>> all the desire to go BSD (sick of buying a Windows license for a
>> Pentium II that moves files three times a day) but I have had a hard
>> time steering him to BSD.  He started looking into Suse but mostly
>> because it is mentioned in the magazines he reads (and we are in Utah,
>> so maybe there is some Novell pride or something).  My problem is that
>> he doesn't believe BSD is an "enterprise ready platform" (his quote,
>> not mine).
> [ snip ]
>
> I have a large client in Toronto;  one of the largest online credit card 
> handlers in CA.  They use OpenBSD almost exclusively now in place of Windows 
> and Linux.  This is for both load-balanced failover firewalls and for 
> high-availability e-commerce servers.  Does that not qualify as "enterprise 
> ready"?


Tyler, Jason and rest of list, I'm actively seeking companies to approach
for white papers and ideas for getting BSD into non-technical magazines (or
technical magazines that rarely cover BSD). I'm not talking technical how-tos,
but more along the lines of TOC and glossy marketing thingies. Contact me
directly if you are interested in assisting with this. Even if you can't 
think of a company per se but you have the ability to express yourself in 
a way that appeals to those who hold the purse strings, drop me a line.

Dru