From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jul 10 10:39: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 012B537B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:39:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.46.72]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA5532; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:45:26 -0700 Message-ID: <3B4B3DB0.63B2A0FC@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:38:56 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karl Agee Cc: newbies Subject: Re: ammo to take to the boss... References: <3B4B3AE0.46F29DBB@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Karl Agee wrote: > > So your boss doesnt think linux or freebsd can "cut it" and he believes > the microsoft fud that "nobody uses linux" or other open-source os's??? > Take a look at this article which is a compliation of all the studies > done in the last few years including the fud from redmond: > > http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html I can't say I would recommend the article, although it's a good source for references. It's extremely biased towards LinuxOS. It also follows the rule that if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bulls**t. One prominent example: "GNU/Linux with TUX produced better SPEC values than Windows/IIS". TUX is not a real-world web server, as it only serves static web pages. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message