BSDi Receives $5 Million Investment From Leading Japanese Internet Solution Provider
Nov 1st, 01:41 UTC
BSDi will use the proceeds from the investment to continue to develop and market advanced BSD operating systems and its iXtreme Series line of Internet servers
computing systems and to provide ongoing backing for the FreeBSD Project, the developers of the FreeBSD open source operating system.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Oct. 31 -- BSDi, the leader in Internet infrastructure-grade solutions, announced today the company has received a $5
million strategic investment from Livin' On The Edge (The Edge; TSE: 4753), one of Japan's leading Internet solution providers.
"We are pleased to back BSDi's commitment to develop BSD Internet technologies, popularize BSD as the original open source operating system, and continue its backing
of the FreeBSD Project," said Dan Kogai, Chief Technical Officer of Livin' On The Edge. "More than 95 percent of the servers used and integrated by The Edge run on
FreeBSD. FreeBSD helps to fuel our rapid growth by making it possible to run very intensive Internet servers at significantly less cost. In short, the BSD Internet Daemon
sharpens The Edge. We intend to work closely with BSDi to ensure the ongoing development and commercial viability of the BSD platform."
"Livin' On The Edge is a long-time BSD user and advocate that understands the important role that BSDi serves as the leading commercial supplier of BSD operating
system, networking and Internet technologies," said Gary J. Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of BSDi. "The BSD platform is particularly popular throughout the Asia
Pacific region, and we are proud to gain a strategic investment from one of Japan's leading Internet solution providers."
BSDi will use the proceeds from the investment to continue to develop and market advanced BSD operating systems and its iXtreme(TM) Series line of Internet servers
computing systems and to provide ongoing backing for the FreeBSD Project, the developers of the FreeBSD open source operating system.
About Livin' On The Edge
Livin' on the Edge is a leading Internet solution provider in Japan. The Edge offers a one-stop, total Internet solution. From a single web page to entire data center
management, The Edge can offer virtually any Internet-related solution and is expanding with the goal of becoming a global Internet solution provider for the Pacific Rim.
For more information about Livin' on the Edge visit www.edge.co.jp.
About the FreeBSD Project
FreeBSD is a popular open source operating system developed by the FreeBSD Project and its worldwide team, consisting of more than 5,000 developers funneling their
work to the more than 200 "committer" developers who have "write access" to FreeBSD's central code base. BSDi distributes FreeBSD as a shrink-wrap software
through retail outlets including BestBuy, CompUSA, Fry's, MicroCenter, Staples and RCS as well as BSDi's www.freeebsdmall.com. FreeBSD includes thousands of
ported applications, including the most popular Web, Internet and E-mail applications. FreeBSD is distributed under the Berkeley Software Distribution license, which
means that it can be copied and modified freely without commercial restriction. For more information about the FreeBSD Project, visit www.freebsd.org.
About BSDi
BSDi delivers Internet infrastructure-grade systems, software and solutions backed by world-renowned professional services and support. BSDi systems power the
Internet's most popular sites and highest-volume providers. BSDi customers include Internet service providers (ISPs), application service providers (ASPs), Web hosting,
data, and communications centers, corporate intranets, Internet appliance developers, Internet application developers, and hardware/system manufacturers and
integrators -- including Yahoo, UUnet, Intel, About.com and countless others. Headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO, BSDi is located at 719-457-8400 or
www.bsdi.com.
NOTE: BSD is a registered trademark and iXtreme, BSD/OS, and BSDi are trademarks of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Other trademarks are property of the respective
owners.
(Submitted by Martin Pitts of Linux Today)
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