From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 17 02:32:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA04177 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 02:32:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abc.xyz.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA04060 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 02:31:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) From: groggy@iname.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abc.xyz.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA03757; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:31:08 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:31:08 -0800 (AKDT) X-Sender: abc@abc.xyz.net To: Gorton Zhao Guo Wei cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A couple of questions to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <000701bde1fc$57b6d510$dfd378cb@gwzhao.pacific.net.sg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Dear Sir or Madam, mostly sirs ;) please use end-of-line characters! > 1 -- I want to use the FreeBSD as my web server and also link my web pages to a data-base. I want to know if there is any database management program like SQL server in the FreeBSD. Maybe, Oracle is the one, but as I know, it has yet supported to FreeBSD. there are many. see Postgres, mSQL, and friends. there are many comparisons of SQL servers on the WWW. > 2 -- FreeBSD is quite popular to the world of Internet server. May I have a list of server functions which FreeBSD has integrated to operating system, another word they are in 4 CDs of FreeBSD? yes, everything you could imagine is in there. > 3 -- I have a Microsoft backoffice small business server. that's too bad. very expensive. and a kludge at that. Can I have a list of FreeBSD software which has the similar functionality to MS Proxy server, MS SQL server, MS fax server and MS Exchange server. I want to compare FreeBSD against MS backoffice small business server. I would like have your opinion of this. that would be a silly thing to do, like comparing apples and oranges. the appropriate thing to compare is your skillset. anyone with the appropriate skills would definitely choose UN*X. MS is only for those that max out their intelligence on setup wizards. > 4 -- Is it possible for FreeBSD to use as a router? yes. but seeing that most of your experience is with MS, you will have a long learning curve ahead before you can fufill your desires. > Thank you. thank you. but don't expect to set it all up within a week or two. you will be able to do it in a day once you know what your doing and have a handy set of config files prepared. it's kind of like a "pay now by learning UN*X, or pay much more later using MS" kind of thing. > With kind regards, > Gorton Zhao To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message