From: "Fariborz 'Skip' Tavakkolian" <fst@real.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] commercial deployment
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:34:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20010719153400.016b4758@mail.real.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200107192036.f6JKaVg17026@ducky.net>
nCUBE
At 01:36 PM 7/19/2001 -0700, Mike Haertel wrote:
>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.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-19 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-19 19:28 anothy
2001-07-19 20:36 ` Mike Haertel
2001-07-19 22:34 ` Fariborz 'Skip' Tavakkolian [this message]
2001-07-20 8:59 ` Alberto Nava
2001-07-20 16:47 ` Ozan Yigit
2001-07-20 21:52 ` Rick Hohensee
2001-07-24 11:34 ` Ozan Yigit
2001-07-25 1:40 ` Rick Hohensee
2001-07-25 3:52 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-25 8:10 ` [9fans] more lucent bad news - another 15,000 to 20,000 jobs to go Matt
2001-07-26 8:48 ` [9fans] commercial deployment Ozan Yigit
2001-07-20 21:56 ` Boyd Roberts
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-26 11:55 rob pike
2001-07-26 13:23 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-26 14:01 ` Rick Hohensee
2001-07-26 15:38 ` Ozan Yigit
2001-07-21 17:32 bwc
2001-07-20 14:20 bwc
2001-07-21 9:53 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-07-19 8:24 Stephen King
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