Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:42:34 -0800 From: Matt Olander <matt@offmyserver.com> To: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Success Stories Message-ID: <20040331164234.F26746@knight.ixsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <1080779750.3107.13.camel@chaucer>; from Mike.Jeays@rogers.com on Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 07:35:50PM -0500 References: <20040331174544.B577@dru.domain.org> <20040331150415.A26746@knight.ixsystems.net> <1080779750.3107.13.camel@chaucer>
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On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 07:35:50PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: > I am really glad they switched to FreeBSD, and I am sure it will turn > out well for them - but I wonder why they didn't just stop buying > support from Red Hat, and switching to Fedora, or one of the other Linux > distributions that can be run without paying a support fee? Because I told them FreeBSD was better ;-) Actually, for a variety of reasons, some of them concerning the SCO issues. My company is not going to indemnify end-users from any potential lawsuits resulting in purchasing Linux servers. Seems like a non-issue until you are actually being sued. At that point, it may not even be a matter of who's wrong and who's right, but who can afford more attorney fees. Also, PSoft, the software company that makes the hosting software that they use apparently do their development work on FreeBSD and recommended it as well. > Do they have a quote on how much better the performance is? I don't know that they have many hard numbers, but I'll certainly poke around when I'm writing this up. cheers, -matt -- Matt Olander (408)943-4100 Phone (408)943-4101 Fax www.offmyserver.com -- "Those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't" -Mark Twain
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