From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jan 28 13:17:39 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17847 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:17:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17841 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:17:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id NAA21661; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:16:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id NAA26335; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:16:26 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id OAA16225; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:16:24 -0700 Message-ID: <36B0D3A8.73A3E571@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:16:24 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Cassata CC: Shawn Workman , FreeBSD Net Subject: Re: Migration to FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jim Cassata wrote: > > We can all report on where and when Microsoft products are appropriate (on > the desktops for most users) but what will probably convince your boss is > by showing him that you are capable of supporting a FreeBSD environment. > (and that means knowing where to find the answers, not necessarily having > them all up front) Set up a box for him and run email and www and > firewall services, then let him toy with the idea of more powerful > hardware and licensing/consulting costs on a less reliable Windows > alternative. Jim makes an excellent point here. Keep in mind that FreeBSD is efficient enough that you could easily do the above with a cast-off Pentium desktop system; even a P100 makes a powerful mail & DNS server. My mail/DNS/ source code/everything server is a 486/66 with 32MB RAM, and hasn't paged since I "upgraded" it to server status and stopped running X. ;^) -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message