The New BSDi to Offer Technical Support For the FreeBSD 4.0 Operating System; FreeBSD Aims for Broad Acceptance Beyond High-Traffic Internet Sites.Business Editors & High-tech Writers COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). Spring 2000 CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2000 Berkeley Software Design, Inc (company) Berkeley Software Design, Inc - (BSDI) A company that sells BSD/OS, a commercial version of Berkeley Standard Distribution Unix, networking, and Internet technologies originally developed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California at ., (BSDi) the world's leading supplier of advanced Internet operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. technology for the Internet infrastructure, today announced it is offering its renown BSDi Technical Support for the FreeBSD operating system. BSDi will begin offering technical support contracts for FreeBSD beginning in May 2000. BSDi technical support contracts include support for installation, patches, kernel tuning, hardware compatibility, administration commands, and others. These programs are available in a variety of plans, from per-incident to annual and 24x7 contracts. "BSDi's technical support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services bring to the FreeBSD open source community the highest level of support services backed and delivered by a well known, commercial company," said Jordan Hubbard Jordan K. Hubbard (born April 8 1963 in Hawaii) is a long-time open source developer, authoring software like the Ardent Window Manager and various other open source tools and libraries before finally co-founding the FreeBSD project. , chief evangelist of the FreeBSD Project. "FreeBSD users will now have a single, comprehensive source of support that so far has not been available to them. This ultimately signifies broad acceptance of FreeBSD technology in the mainstream corporate arena, beyond such high traffic Internet sites as Yahoo! and Hotmail that FreeBSD typically runs." "BSDi's recent pledge to back the BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) The software distribution facility of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California at Berkeley. community is evident in this commitment to provide technical support for FreeBSD," said Gary J. Johnson, chief executive officer of BSDi. "We are committed to reliable, responsive support so that BSD-based operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. can be effectively used by the widest possible audience." BSDi operates the world's largest and busiest open source portal site Noun 1. portal site - a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet; "a portal typically has search engines and free email and chat rooms etc. , freesoftware.com, as a resource for the open source community. BSDi also develops, maintains, delivers and supports its advanced BSD(R) Internet operating system BSD/OS(tm) and associated product In the context of fuels and lubricants, a petroleum or chemical product used as a hydraulic fluid, corrosion preventive, liquid propellant, or specialized product, required for the operation, maintenance, or storage of military equipment. lines. The company is providing the open source FreeBSD Project with initial technologies and backing. About BSDi Technical Support Customers rely on BSDi Technical Support to broadly and efficiently deploy BSD-based operating systems into mission-critical computing environments. BSDi customers can call the BSDi services line at 800/487-2738, email BSDi at support@BSDi.com, or submit a request via the Web at www.bsdi.com/services/support/request. BSDi Technical Support is available Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mountain Standard Time and also in 24X7 time. BSDi's technical support team will help users install the software and configure the services as outlined in the release notes. BSDi can help users with core operating system commands and general system administration and can also lend advice on basic kernel tuning and rebuilding the kernel from objects or source. Availability BSDi Technical Support for FreeBSD will be available in mid-May 2000. Prices for basic email support programs begin at $500. For clients wanting faster response times or additional help, BSDi offers Gold and Platinum Technical Support packages starting at $3,500. About the FreeBSD Project FreeBSD is a popular open source operating system developed by the FreeBSD Project and its worldwide team, consisting of more than 5,000 developers funneling their work to 200 "committer" developers. It is available free of charge from ftp.freebsd.org and also distributed as a shrink-wrapped software Refers to store-bought software, implying a standard platform that is widely supported. product through CompUSA, Fry's, Borders, Ingram, BEST Buy, FreeBSDmall.com and others. FreeBSD includes thousands of ported applications, including the most popular Web, Internet and E-mail applications. FreeBSD is distributed under the Berkeley Software Distribution (operating system) Berkeley Software Distribution - (BSD) A family of Unix versions developed by Bill Joy and others at the University of California at Berkeley, originally for the DEC VAX and PDP-11 computers, and subsequently ported to almost all modern general-purpose computers. license, which means that it can be freely copied, modified and redistributed. For more information about the FreeBSD Project, visit www.freebsd.org. About Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDi) Leading BSD developers founded Berkeley Software Design, Inc. in 1991 to commercialize BSD technologies and to continue the Berkeley Unix tradition of robust, reliable and extremely secure Internet operating systems for network computing. By merging Berkeley Software Design, Inc. and Walnut Creek CDROM Walnut Creek CDROM (Walnut Creek, California) was an early provider of freeware, shareware and free software on CD-ROMs. The company was founded in August 1991 by Bob Bruce and was one of the first commercial distributors of free software on CD-ROMs. , BSDi has become the world's leading supplier of advanced Internet operating systems for the Internet infrastructure. Contact BSDi at info@bsdi.com or at www.bsdi.com or call 719/593-9445 (toll free: 800/800-4273). Note to Editors: BSD is a registered trademark and BSD/OS and BSDi are trademarks of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. All trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. |
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