From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jun 24 6:19:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from slkcpop1.slkc.uswest.net (slkcpop1.slkc.uswest.net [206.81.128.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F09137B578 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 06:19:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jswarner@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 10890 invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2000 13:19:14 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 10873 invoked by uid 0); 24 Jun 2000 13:19:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO uswest.net) (63.224.105.160) by slkcpop1.slkc.uswest.net with SMTP; 24 Jun 2000 13:19:13 -0000 Message-ID: <3954B474.290545F3@uswest.net> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 07:15:32 -0600 From: Joe Warner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francisco Reyes Cc: "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" , " Joe.Warner@smed.com" Subject: Re: Manager's response re: FreeBSD References: <200006240603.CAA37523@sanson.reyes.somos.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Francisco, That's really great! I'm glad to hear about someone else making making some head-way. This will be a great opportunity for you to get some good experience and you'll be in a better position in the future to pass this experience on to others. At the same time, you'll be doing your company and co-workers a service by introducing them to different/better technology. Your situation does seem similar to mine and maybe if we continue to share our experiences, we can help each other and others who might be facing a similar situation. Keep up the good work. 8^} Joe Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:45:04 -0600, Joe.Warner@smed.com wrote: > > >Here's a response I got from one of my managers re: FreeBSD. Any comments > >or replys would be welcome. Thanks. > > The points raised by your boss are very good and very real. > I don't know your environment and don't know what would work for > you, but I am going to share what is going on where I work. > > I just started a week ago a job at a place where I used to work. > Since I left they are now using Unix more than when I had left. > Unfortunately they don't have much Unix knowledge inhouse. > >From talking to the network manager I gathered that he was > worried about this lack of knowledge. > > On the other hand I have the head of HR which mentioned that she > wanted an intranet. > > Having this info I decided to try to use this to my advantage. I > talked to the network admin and asked him "what was his feeling > about Unix". He flat out told me that he was not happy with NT > and that "previous management" had replaced some Netware and Mac > boxes with NT and things were worse. He again repeated his > concern about in-house knowledge... I was waiting for that. I > told him that I wanted to setup an Intranet to use it for > "training" and that eventually we could use it "officially" for > putting information. At the mean time I have been talking to > the tech guys (programmers and network people) and gather their > support and interest. Mentioned to the HR admin that we were > "thinking" on starting to do some initial work on the Intranet. > > Basically I have been researching the interest and try to > present FreeBSD as a solution to particular business needs, > training and an Intranet. > > I asked the Network admin if he could give me any old box to > install FreeBSD. His answer was that there is an old fileserver > that he could give me as long as he cleared with our boss. I > don't know specs, but I am sure that that computer is much > better than what I would have settled for. :-) > > Francisco > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message