Heh. I was Head of IT for a company that manufactured the physical media for all SUN OS products. (meaning if you bought any SUN software, and it came on a CD

Heh. I was Head of IT for a company that manufactured the physical media for all SUN OS products. (meaning if you bought any SUN software, and it came on a CD and in a box- we manufactured all of that, and shipped it as if we were SUN) We would receive updates to the releases via FTP. We had several FTP servers which SUN would PUT their files on and we had a nightly batch job grab the files and transfer to the machines that burned the CDs... I implemented Linux on those machines with the help of hiriing a few Linux consultants I knew... Dave Sifry, Chris DiBona and a few others. I called Dave in and told him "If I were you, I'd start a Linux support company/consulting company" A few weeks later he came to me and stated that they had founded a company "LINUXCARE" At one point he was worth $100 million off that... Chris was/is huge at google... but yeah, another annecdote was that this is also when XML became a thing, and we were one of the first companies to adopt XML out of SUN because they wanted to PUT XML docs on our FTP server for their releases... and LINUXCARE was tasked with creating our CRON job scripts for watching the directories for updates and batch jobs....