Re: list of OpenBSD links...

Ben:

Actually, your paper here:

http://www.trumpetpower.com/pub/OpenBSD_and_Network_Security.pdf

is one of the better marketing pieces I have discovered for BSD. It clearly explains the potential of OpenBSD in a way that most business and marketing folks could understand and counts as an excellent marketing or SBA presentation piece. What's needed next are articles with titles like:

(1) "How I integrated OpenBSD onto xx number of legacy workstations and servers for the local Naval Base."
(2) "Our Migration to OpenBSD from Windows 2000: How my company kicked the Windows Habit"
(3) "How big company X cut costs, satisified users, and pleased management by installing 3000 OpenBSD desktops and servers" (4) "Integrating DoD research applications into OpenBSD: A case study in OpenOffice, POOMA, and other MDA needed apps" (4) The Open Office spreadsheet template used to cost out 1, 2 , 3, 4 Etc.

In short: to make the 'business plan process' work, you have to start collecting evidence that you are worth 250K or so in SBA start-up capital; that there is a market for your enterprise, that you have examples of such integration and cost analysis of such deployments, etc.

There is all kinds of crap that comes spewing out of the "business plan process" in order to attract SBA, government contract monies. But you really don't have a shot unless you can somehow convince someone that the market for your services is real.

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Ryan M. Ferris
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• Original Message ----- From: "Ben Goren" <ben@trumpetpower.com> To: <advocacy@openbsd.org> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 7:11 PM Subject: Re: list of OpenBSD links...

> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:08:20PM -0700, Ryan M. Ferris wrote:
Received on Fri Jun 13 00:37:51 2003