>-----Original Message----- >From: Doug Hass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 8:56 AM >To: Leo Bicknell >Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; Jim Bryant; MurrayTaylor; >[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: FYI > > >In a private e-mail, Leo writes: > >> You offered a discount on these boards on the list. If you think there >> is a real opportunity to sell these to the *BSD crowd, I recomend you >> take that 15% (or some part of it) and offer to partially fund a driver >> developer. There are many freelance programmers working on the project >> who for $1000-$5000 (depending on complexity) could make your driver a >> reality. A good developer could probably also make them work under >> OpenBSD and NetBSD in one fell swoop. > >I'd be happy to pledge the 15% to a driver developer. That's a >great idea! It will accomplish two objectives: > >1) There will be at least 100 WANic 400 series cards available for >purchase to support existing installations (assuming someone out there >places the order). > >2) ImageStream will pledge 15% of the purchase price of any lots of these >400 series cards toward porting of our SAND architecture to FreeBSD. >That's a MINIMUM of $8,100 that ImageStream is willing to pay a developer >or group of developers to port the drivers for the rest of the cards. > >Ted--you've indicated that there is a significant market for the 400 >series cards in the community.
There is depending on the price. I'll freely admit however that I have not priced the competitive serial sync cards that are currently supported under FreeBSD, so I don't know how the WANic 400 or 500 stacks up against them. For all I know right now there's someone just bringing a T1 interface card to the market with integrated CSU that sells for $30 per card which would make this entire discussion moot. Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
