successful linux products

[R Scott Belford]

While they don't have exceptional market share, Apple has had a lot of 
success using *bsd.  Their Airport wireless base station is a commercial 
hardware product that runs on a *bsd kernel.  It offers port forwarding, 
includes a modem and a nic, and can operate as an exceptional 
firewall/router.  It is the most expensive of access points, but it is 
by far the best.

If you haven't seen Apple's OSX, you have not seen the best of what open 
source can achieve in a commercial gui.  Exquisite, stable, and running 
on a *bsd core.  A great synthesis of unix stability and apple usability.

scott


On Wednesday, January 23, 2002, at 06:28  PM, 
lockhart at jeans.ifa.hawaii.edu wrote:

> Sorry, should have been verbose.  I'm looking for examples of companies
> that have:
> a) produced a software product that runs on Linux (not an actual distro 
> of
> Linux itself) and are making profits by either selling that software or
> supporting it.
> b)as you said, companies that have made products that use an
> implementation of linux, embedded systems stuff, etc.
>
> but not companies that sell or support a linux distro or provide support
> services for other peoples products, or companies that feel they have
> benefitted by using linux in-house.
>
> I keep hearing variations on this phrase "Silicon valley is littered 
> with
> the bodies of companies that based their products on Linux".  I'm using
> Linux in several of my projects, and plan to use it on more projects in
> the future, but none of these are commercial.  However, I'd like to 
> take a
> look at companies that have been successful integrating Linux into their
> products, and why they made it and others didn't.
>
> -Charles
>
>>
>> I was waiting for someone else to reply but
>> that hasnt happened yet.  Could you be more
>> specific?
>> Are you looking for successful
>> implementations of Linux the OS itself like
>> in a computer environment, or some pre-
>> packaged specific hardware and/or software
>> product that happens to use some form of
>> Linux (embedded in firmware, a web browsing
>> kiosk, portable MP3 player etc) where it is
>> used in the background but not as obvious to
>> the user?
>>>
>>> lockhart at irtf.ifa.hawaii.edu wrote:
>>
>>> Just wondering, is there a list out there, anywhere, that lists 
>>> products
>>> based on linux that have been successful?
>>
>>> -Charles Lockhart
>
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