BSDi EMEA Closing Operations

Major Grubert writes "BSDi Europe, Middle East and Africa has closed operations. I found out after not getting any news from our local rep (in Barcelona) after I'd sent him some feedback about a new server they'd let us test. Nothing about this on their website... We adore FreeBSD, and this doesn't inspire much confidence in BSDi (soon to be known as iX Systems) as a *BSD supporting company - they were actually making some inroads in the Spanish market. I hope at least our support contracts with them will be honoured..."

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what a shock

[Anonymous Coward]

BSDi is out of money. Closing these extra offices was a sure thing as of months ago. Blame the CEO, Gary Johnson. That guy is astondingly clueless. I mean, it's one thing for clueless linux-kiddie-dot-coms to go under, but BSDi? Come on here, we're talking about a company that employs Mike Karels and Paul Vixie. They are a far cry from linux-weazel.com hiring Joe CS Grad from CSU Chico. It took a real dope of a CEO to drag this company down. Not to mention the cluelessness of general upper management, and sales folk pushing in the wrong direction. BSDi tried to tell us that they were going to be a big player, all by themselves, in the embedded systems market for gawds sake! Hardly the low-cost, high-avail, high-performance server market that BSDi was successful in for years beforehand.

Ironically enough, the marketdroids and upper-management-dopes had their embedded-systems wish come true with the Wind River purchase.

For the sake of the engineers, I hope the Wind River deal makes BSDi into something big. This is a small company, but it has the engineering capacity of someone like Sun or IBM. Good engineers deserve money. BSDi engineers deserve lots of it.