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(BSDI) announced today that it has merged with Walnut - Creek CDROM, the distributor of the popular FreeBSD operating system. - As a merged company, the new BSDI unites the leading developers and - suppliers of the Berkeley Software Distribution operating system - BSDI will develop and deliver advanced BSDŽ Internet operating systems - and platforms, while providing the open source FreeBSD Project with - technology, backing and expanded support.</p> - -<p>BSD operating systems run some of the Internet's most highly trafficked - sites and largest service providers, including Yahoo!, Microsoft's - Hotmail and UUNET, an MCI WorldCom company. BSD and Linux are today's - fastest-growing operating systems, according to Survey.com, the leading - eResearch company.</p> - -<p>BSD operating system, networking and Internet technologies have - achieved widespread acceptance in the Internet infrastructure. Over - 100,000 commercial Internet customers run BSD operating systems on more - than 2,000,000 BSD-powered servers. It is estimated that nine out of 10 - Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Network Service Providers (NSPs) - as well as 15 percent of all Internet sites run BSD systems. BSD - operating systems are also embedded in innovative Internet appliances - from Intel, IBM, Lucent, F5 Labs, Hitachi and many others.</p> - -<p>BSDI also announced that Yahoo! Inc. will take an equity interest in - the new company. BSDI will leverage the equity interest to execute on - its plan to build a bridge between open source innovation and commercial - requirements. The equity position will be used to grow BSDI's presence - as a leading provider of the most advanced Internet operating systems - for the Internet infrastructure.</p> - -<p>BSDI intends to form a united front for the BSD operating systems. The - company will deliver, support and enhance both BSD/OS and FreeBSD. BSDI - and the FreeBSD Project are jointly evaluating the technology and market - requirements for merging parts of the code bases for the two operating - systems.</p> - -<h3>The New BSDI's Leadership</h3> - -<p>"BSD technologies have evolved from a long history of advanced - computing at the core of the Internet," said Dr. Marshall Kirk - McKusick, BSDI's chairman of the board. "The new BSDI will further - enrich the popular BSD computing platform, which is already widely - deployed throughout the world." McKusick was a founding member of the - University of California at Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group - (CSRG) and is widely acknowledged as a key early contributor to the open - source movement.</p> - -<p>To drive the new BSDI's vision, roadmap and continued profitable - growth, Gary J. Johnson has been appointed chief executive officer. - Johnson is an experienced technology executive who has served in a - variety of senior management, sales, marketing and operations capacities - with leading Silicon Valley companies including Tandem Computers - (Compaq), Convergent Technologies (Unisys) and SCO. Johnson most - recently served as president of ClickService Software, a leading - provider of e-commerce, customer relationship management (CRM) - software.</p> - -<p>"Innovation in the operating systems arena relies heavily on work in - the open source community," said Johnson. "To date, Linux suppliers, - such as Red Hat Software and VA Linux, have captured impressive - attention for the open source approach to development. At the core of - the Internet, however, BSD technologies are pervasive. The new BSDI will - be working closely with the open source community to ensure that - advanced BSD Internet operating systems and platforms continue to meet - the ever-increasing demands for Internet servers, applications, - appliances and other elements vital to the Internet infrastructure."</p> - -<p>In addition to his current responsibilities, Mike Karels, BSDI's vice - president of engineering and the former chief system architect and - principal programmer for the University of California at Berkeley's - CSRG, plans to join the architectural team for the FreeBSD Project. - Karels, who replaced Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy at the CSRG, - is recognized as one of the world's foremost developers of Unix - internals and TCP/IP networking software.</p> - -<p>"BSD technologies have contributed to Yahoo!'s continued success by - offering the reliability and level of service necessary to ensure the - availability and scalability we need to keep Yahoo! up and running - around the clock regardless of increasing user demand," said David Filo, - co-founder and Chief Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc.</p> - -<h3>BSDI Continues To Deliver BSD/OS And FreeBSD; Expands And Accelerates - FreeBSD Open Source Initiatives</h3> - -<p>The new BSDI will sell and support FreeBSD, BSD/OS, BSDI Internet Super - Server and value-added BSD product lines through its worldwide sales - channels to Internet infrastructure providers, appliance developers and - business users. BSDI will offer commercially supported BSD operating - systems and related applications, Internet appliance platforms, - technical support and services, open source software development, and - consulting services. The company will deliver its BSD Internet and - networking technologies on leading microprocessor platforms, including - Intel, SPARC, Alpha, PowerPC and StrongARM.</p> - -<p>BSDI will continue to develop, enhance and distribute BSD/OS and - FreeBSD according to the terms of the business-friendly, unencumbered - Berkeley software license, which encourages development for open source - software projects, embedded systems, specialized applications, - information appliances and other operating system-enabled products.</p> - -<p>BSDI will expand and accelerate Walnut Creek CDROM's FreeBSD open - source initiatives by sharing BSD/OS technical innovations with the - FreeBSD Project and by providing this open source project with - operational and technical support, marketing and funding. BSDI will - continue to distribute packaged versions of FreeBSD and also plans to - develop value-added products based on FreeBSD as well as to provide - technical support, consulting services, educational services and - training for FreeBSD customers. These steps are expected to promote and - invigorate the BSD open source computing movement. The FreeBSD Project - develops the popular FreeBSD operating system and aggregates and - integrates contributed software from more than 5,000 developers - worldwide.</p> - -<h3>Internet and Open Source Leaders Support The New BSDI</h3> - -<p>"We are delighted that BSDI is backing the FreeBSD open source - community," said Jordan Hubbard, chief evangelist and co-founder of the - FreeBSD Project. "The new BSDI has considerable expertise in - commercializing, maintaining, distributing and supporting the world's - most advanced Internet operating systems. We are excited and greatly - looking forward to partnering with BSDI's chief developers, especially - Mike Karels and other original members of UC Berkeley's CSRG, to - accelerate operating system, networking and Internet innovation."</p> - -<p>"Open source operating systems like BSD offer better technology and - more choices to the customer," said Eric Raymond, president of the Open - Source Initiative. "I expect BSDI to prove yet again that the open - source and business communities can really to do great things together, - driving the industry forward as dramatically as the Internet."</p> - -<p>"Our research shows that BSD and Linux will increase their share of - enterprise servers by between 100 percent and 500 percent over the next - two years in the fundamental applications that run U.S. business," said - Dave Trowbridge, senior analyst at Survey.com. "This new company will - help ensure that BSD gets its place in the sun, which its rich heritage - and solid technical foundations deserve."</p> - -<h3>About the Berkeley Software Distribution Operating System</h3> - -<p>Berkeley Software Distribution operating system technologies were - originally developed from 1979 to 1992 by the Computer Systems Research - Group (CSRG) at the University of California at Berkeley. - Berkeley-derived operating system and networking technologies are at the - heart of most modern Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Today, - virtually every major Internet infrastructure provider uses BSD - operating systems. BSD operating system technologies are used by - leading mission-critical network computing environments and are embedded - in Internet appliance platforms that require advanced Internet - functionality, reliability and security.</p> - -<h3>About the FreeBSD Project</h3> - -<p>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 185 "committer" developers. It is - available free of charge from ftp.FreeBSD.org and also distributed as a - shrink-wrap software product through CompUSA, Fry's, Borders, Ingram, - 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 license, which means that it can be copied and modified - freely. For more information about the FreeBSD Project, visit <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/">www.FreeBSD.org</a>.</p> - -<h3>About Walnut Creek CDROM</h3> - -<p>Walnut Creek CDROM was founded in 1991 and began publishing Linux - software in 1992, and BSD software in 1993. The company has a long - history of working closely with the free software community and - providing funding, staffing and other resources for open source - projects. Walnut Creek CDROM publishes numerous software titles, - including FreeBSD and Slackware, the most BSD-like version of Linux.</p> - -<p>About Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDI)</p> - -<p>Leading BSD developers founded Berkeley Software Design, Inc. in 1991 - to commercialize BSD technologies and 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, BSDI becomes the world's leading supplier of - advanced Internet operating systems for the Internet infrastructure. - Contact BSDI at <a href="mailto:info@BSDI.com">info@BSDI.com</a> or at - <a href="http://www.BSDI.com/">www.BSDI.com</a> or call 1-719-593-9445 - (toll free: 1-800-800-4273).</p> - -<h3># # #</h3> - -<p>BSD is a registered trademark and BSD/OS and BSDI are trademarks of - Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are registered - trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All trademarks mentioned in this document are - the property of their respective owners.</p> - -<p>Contact:<br/> -Kevin Rose<br/> -BSDI<br/> -801-553-8166<br/> -<a href="mailto:kgr@bsdi.com">kgr@bsdi.com</a></p> - -<p>Jordan Hubbard<br/> -FreeBSD Project<br/> -925-691-2863<br/> -<a href="mailto:jkh@FreeBSD.org">jkh@FreeBSD.org</a></p> - -<p>Brigid Fuller<br/> -ZNA Communications<br/> -831-425-1581<br/> -<a href="mailto:brigid@zna.com">brigid@zna.com</a></p> - -</body> -</html> |