In addition to the demos of commercial software available in the FreeBSD distribution, a number of other commercial vendors offer software products specifically for FreeBSD. If you know of other companies supporting FreeBSD that should be added to this page, please notify us.

Software

• AstroArch Consulting, Inc. develops and licenses its ISP Billing and Tracking System or BATS for FreeBSD as well as thirteen other Operating Systems. For more information, check out the web pages http://www.tpoint.net/astroarch, send email to elh@astroarch.com or call (512) 990-1064.

• Communication Systems Research Corp. - Business applications and consulting for Unix systems including BSD. Specializing in analysis and development of high performance solutions for networking problems. Located in Portland Oregon, consulting internationally for over 12 years. Telephone: (503) 291-1345

• BRU from Enhanced Software Technologies is a very powerful and reliable tape backup system. It offers per-file compression, an improved tape format with three different kinds of verification, and many safety checks to insure data integrity. The "BSD/OS 1.1" version works well with FreeBSD.

• Conetic Software is offering a FREE copy of C/BASE 4GL for the FreeBSD 2.0.5 operating system. C/BASE 4GL features a powerful application development tool and database engine. Featuring a easy to user visual development environment, a scripting language, and application libraries with a C language (API) interface. The best thing about C/BASE 4GL is that it is fully portable across hardware and operating system platforms. FreeBSD to DOS, DOS to SOLARIS, SOLARIS to AIX, etc.... Your free copy of C/BASE 4GL is set to run for a maximum of 2 concurrent users and 1,000 records. Please contact us at info@conetic.com if you'd like a taste of even more power and programming fun.

• Inlab Software GmbH offers binaries of Inlab-Scheme for FreeBSD and Linux which are free for personal or educational use. Inlab-Scheme is a R4RS compliant Scheme which is capable of reading and writing TIFF and XBM-bitmaps to and from a special internal bitmap type. With built-in primitives for image processing, Inlab-Scheme can be a general tool for tasks like optical character recognition and general analysis and processing of bitmap data.

• NetCon Corporation established in 1985, with over 10,000 installed servers, is the leading supplier of NetWare compatible operating systems and Internet Gateways for standard UNIX platforms. NetCon offers a complete line of systems for FreeBSD, SUN Solaris, SCO UNIX/ODT and IBM AIX RS6000 serving from 5 to 1000 users. Services include; Full Internet access from NetWare/WIN95/Windows workstations over IPX/SPX, X Windows over IPX/SPX, NetWare file and print services, NetWare Client services for UNIX, High-performance, DOS/Windows Terminal Emulation.

• Obtuse Systems Corporation has the Juniper Firewall Toolkit available for FreeBSD. Juniper is a toolkit for building transparent proxying bastion hosts. Documentation is online at http://www.obtuse.com/juniper-docs/. Juniper is available free-of-charge for evaluation, educational, and personal use as defined by the Juniper License Agreement. For more info please visit our page at http://www.obtuse.com/, or send mail to info@obtuse.com

• Perforce Software produces PERFORCE -- the FAST Software Configuration Management System for many UNIX platforms and NT. More capable than freeware tools, more applicable than solutions from academia, and more usable than available commercial products, PERFORCE manages software projects comprising thousands of source files shared by dozens of engineers across many heterogeneous platforms and geographically distributed locations. Documentation and fully functional versions (but limited to two client workspaces) can be downloaded from the Web pages. For non-commercial users on FreeBSD, we offer servers with unlimited client workspaces for $1. Perforce Software can be reached at info@perforce.com or 1 (510) 865-8720.

• Progresive Networks, Inc. offers both its RealAudio player and server for FreeBSD. The free player allows you to play live and on-demand audio over 14.4Kps and faster connections. All you have to do is click on a RealAudio link from your Web browser and audio begins playing instantly. Check out The RealAudio Guide to access hundreds of sites offering music, news, live radio stations, live events etc. The server allows your website to deliver live and on-demand audio over the Internet or your company network.

• RTD provides an ISP billing package for ISPs using FreeBSD called UTA

• Coolworld.Com, Inc. provides a billing package for ISP's called Internet Billing. This package was designed to handle all the billing needs for Internet service providers. It runs under MS-Windows. One piece of the software is a client/server set with a daemen that runs on a UNiX server (including FreeBSD) that allows the client to do all for their user management under a windows frontend.

• X Inside, Inc. offers software enhancements for FreeBSD. Accelerated-X Server completely supports 356 graphics adapters from over 40 vendors, including many partially supported or not included with XFree86. Download a free demonstration from ftp.xinside.com. Utilize 3D graphics with Accelerated-X OpenGL. Accelerated-X Multi-Head allows 8 monitors from a single server. Full Motif 2.0 runtime and development kits are also available. For more information email info@xinside.com or call +1 (303) 298-7478.

• XVScan allows you to use your HP ScanJet scanner under FreeBSD. It is a commercial product based on John Bradley's xv.

• Zeus Technology Limited offer Zeus Server for FreeBSD. Zeus Server is an advanced, powerful full-featured commercial grade webserver designed with exceptional performance, minimal machine resource requirements and ease of administration in mind. Free evaluation copies may be downloaded.

Hardware and complete systems

• Apache Digital Corporation creates custom high-performance PC based systems optimized for the FreeBSD operating system. We have many standard systems to choose from as well as an on-line custom system design form to help you create your custom dream system. Please feel free to contact info@apache.com for more information.

• Cyclades Corporation sells a variety of high performance, multiport serial cards which FreeBSD supports in its standard releases (due largely to their generous cooperation in providing us with hardware and technical assistance).

• Emerging Technologies, Inc. has high speed serial communications adapters allowing FreeBSD systems to utilize leased lines at speeds from 56k to T1. The adapters include a complete set of drivers and utilities that allow a FreeBSD machine to communicate directly with virtually any IP router via synchronous PPP, Frame Relay or X.25, and directly to CISCO brand routers with CISCO serial encapsulation. Full documentation and support are included. Several hardware choices are available ranging from an economical single port adapter card to a dual T1 line model with dual 25mhz dedicated processors. To contact Emerging Techologies, send E-mail to info@etinc.com.

• Geli Engineering offers economical Pentium workstation clusters that use the FreeBSD operating system.

• The Init Organization specializes in Intranet networking servers running FreeBSD. We can custom design and construct high performance servers to fill any need. The Init Organization also provides network support and management, IS support and training, corporate-wide e-mail gateways, domain name registration and hosting, world wide web site development, and more. Please send e-mail to info@init.org, or visit http://www.tioga.com/~Init/.

• MOXA makes economically priced multi-port serial cards which are compatible with FreeBSD's sio serial driver. The C104 / C168 family of 2/4/8 serial port cards feature custom ASIC design, speeds up to 921.6Kbps, surge protection, independent and software configurable I/O ports and IRQs.

• Stallion Technolgies Inc offers a range of multiport serial boards for the ISA, EISA, MCA and PCI buses. Although Stallion does not officially support drivers for FreeBSD, there is an unsupported, freely available driver available from their FTP site. This driver supports the Stallion EasyIO and EasyConnection 8/32 multiport boards. For local pricing and availability information, contact Stallion via their WWW page.

• SW Technology offers quality Pentium machines with FreeBSD pre-installed.

• Zyzzyva Enterprises presents the Z-Router as an affordable alternative for businesses and organizations seeking cost-effective router and webserver solutions that provide ease-of-maintenance and flexibility to meet changing connection demands. Our industrial quality systems run on the FreeBSD operating system. The Z-Router provides a secure web interface to system maintenance through a convenient online configuration management tool.
  Email: info@zyzzyva.com. Voice: 402.438.1848. FAX: 402.438.1869.

Documentation and miscellaneous accessories

• The Bookpool offers 30% discounts on the new edition of The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, a must-have for any FreeBSD bookshelf.