Oko said:
Read my post carefully. No U.S. company will deploy non-proprietary system without a very
good reason. The fact that JunoOS (Juniper OS) is almost 80% FreeBSD code doesn't change the fact that they claim that it is 100% proprietary OS developed from the scratch.
I hope you get the point.
Interesting, but wrong.
Cisco systems has FreeBSD in the formerly IronPort products. Many of the Cisco BUs also have FreeBSD in various roles in the network.
Symmetricomm makes a number of systems for high precision time and frequency control, measurement and distribution that has FreeBSD under the hood.
Google has funded much FreeBSD research a Cambridge. Robert Watson will discuss sandboxing of Chrome on FreeBSD at BSDcan coming up in May.
Juniper deploys FreeBSD under the hood in JunOS. The bits they are claiming as proprietary are their secret sauce additions. Juniper is a big FreeBSD contributor. They have contributed a number of bug fixes into FreeBSD, as well a port to MIPS which is now the basis of FreeBSD/mips.
iX Systems does indeed offer support for FreeBSD and PC-BSD, in addition to their hardware services. [ disclaimer: I work for iX systems these days ]
NetApp's systems have FreeBSD under the hood as well. They have contributed many bug fixes in the network area, as well as improvements to FreeBSD's NFS stack.
Sandvine makes large FreeBSD storage boxes with a fairly stock FreeBSD. While Canadian, that doesn't lessen the fact they are using FreeBSD.
iX Systems has a number of clients that are deploying large FreeBSD machines to serve video and other network content. They have no problems using FreeBSD systems in their production network. In fact, I'm not allowed to mention who they are because they consider it a competitive advantage.
Cavium Networks and RMI have donated FreeBSD ports to their MIPS platforms, and are supporting efforts to integrate that support into FreeBSD. These are big network vendors that came to us looking to have their ports integrated because their customers were demanding FreeBSD on these platforms.
These are just a few that I can name off the top of my head that are located in the US.
Warner