Re: [9fans] commercial deployment

[Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net>]

an acquaintance of mine from the university now works for a company
that is using Plan 9 to do high performance media servers (some video
on demand kind of thing, i think).  they were using the 1995 edition,
which they commercially licensed from bell labs.

they needed a real time OS; they looked at Linux at the time (a few
years ago, not sure exactly when) and decided that fixing all the
problems to suit their needs would be too hard given how much of a
bloated pig Linux had become, and so they decided to start with Plan 9
and fix it up with the real-time features they needed.

i don't know the name of the company or whether they're still in
business.  it is/was located somewhere in in the Portland, OR area.  i
heard all this when i ran into the fellow in a restuarant back in
January or so, so it seems likely they're still around.