From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 2 13:27:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E064716A4CE for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:27:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE55E43D2D for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:27:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com ([157.226.230.209]:4449) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AyHQH-0006AD-4z; Tue, 02 Mar 2004 13:27:29 -0800 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:19:08 -0800 Received: from dhcp-46-107.acuson.com ([157.226.46.107]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id GFNWBMSF; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:17:58 -0800 From: Johnson David To: Eric Anderson Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:25:40 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <4043F3A2.7030407@centtech.com> <200403021115.17746.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <4044E6A8.5040208@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <4044E6A8.5040208@centtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403021325.40653.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1AyHQH-0006AD-4z*QFAF95efWA2* cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Most wanted X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 21:27:58 -0000 On Tuesday 02 March 2004 11:55 am, Eric Anderson wrote: > I have to agree - however I see two classes of "machines" at a > company. Workstations/desktops, and servers. Even though many > corporate execs or managers only use the desktop, they all seem to > understand that a server runs something other than that - be it a > different version of windows, linux, bsd, etc. While they may see that the server needs to run something else, all too often it's merely a different version of Windows. They're smart enough to know that Windows XP Home Edition is inappropriate for the mail server, but not educated enough to know that Windows itself is inappropriate. The sad fact is that those making technology decisions are no longer technologically savvy. David