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From: G. David Butler gdb@dbS...
Subject: Commercial Use of Plan 9
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 08:05:09 -0500

I wrote:

>OK, so now you have "researched" Plan 9 from Bell Labs, er, Lucent
>Technologies and have decided that it would make a reasonable platform
>for some application.  Now what?

Well I have waited long enough to post the results of my query.  These
are the number of commitments:

Appliances: 0
Clients: 4
Servers: 0

And the number of maybes:

Appliances: 0
Clients: 7
Servers: 2

The message is, there is *no* opportuity for this business.

I know there are companies that have licensed Plan 9.  Are there any
interested in selling commercial use licenses to holders of the source
license?

Thanks for the feedback.

David Butler
gdb@dbS...