> After the PhD, I decided that academia wasn't for me and so got a job at 
> Acorn in tech support. The company then merged with Apple to become Acorn and 
> Apple's sole provider to education in the UK. A new client came out which 
> booted using bootp and NFS with no local storage. I took it and got it to 
> boot from NetBSD. The company ran with this and we launched in January 1997 
> (using 1.2G IIRC). We sold these systems to schools all over the UK (so Apple 
> UK were effectively selling BSD boxes into schools years before MacOS X). In 
> 1999, Apple bought out the whole company and anything non-Apple got dumped. I 
> took all the IPR and set up my own company to continue development. We 
> rebranded it and moved to Intel hardware. NetBSD's single source tree and 
> cross-platform ability meant this was very easy). We expanded the services it 
> provided and to this day continue to sell Internet/security servers to 
> schools throughout the UK (In fact, I'm currently typing this on such a 
> machine out on site while their Windows server rebuilds after a crash). See 
> http://www.netmanager.info/
>
> We are also heavily into Citrix and thin-client computing. We sell a product 
> based on NetBSD which converts pretty much any old PC into a 
> centrally-managed thin-client. This is installed in the hundreds at some 
> schools. We are also due to launch our own range of thin-client hardware at 
> the end of the month which is, once again, NetBSD based (this time running 
> 3.0_BETA and waiting for a full release!). http://www.thinit.info/

That's very interesting! I couldn't find any of the pages on the two 
domains say it's based on NetBSD, are there any? We'd definitely like to 
list your products in the NetBSD Gallery!


  - Hubert