open source software on CD-ROM and shortly after that acquired Telenet System Solutions, Inc., an Internet infrastructure server supplier. In 2001, under severe financial pressure from excessive leverage, BSDI (known as BSDi by that time) sold its software business unit (comprising BSD/OS and the former Walnut Creek FreeBSD and Slackware Linux open source offerings) to Wind River Systems and renamed the remainder iXsystems with a renewed focus on server hardware. Wind River dropped sponsorship of Slackware soon afterwards. and the FreeBSD unit was divested as a separate entity FreeBSD Mall, Inc. in 2002. Faced with competition from open-source BSD- and Linux-based operating systems, Wind River discontinued BSD/OS in December 2003. Many of its technologies live on in community-led BSD derivatives like FreeBSD. iXsystems In 2002, OffMyServer acquired the iXsystems hardware business and reverted to the iXsystems name in 2005. References See also BSD FreeBSD Wind River Systems iXsystems Software companies established in 1991 Software companies disestablished in 2002 American companies established in 1991 American companies disestablished in 2002 Defunct software companies of the United States Berkeley Software Distribution