From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 31 22:27:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA29769 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 22:27:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA29762 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 22:27:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.106]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA29DE; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:27:04 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <80502.917844759@zippy.cdrom.com> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 07:35:53 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: From Slashdot... Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jcwells@u.washington.edu, scrappy@hub.org, Terry Lambert Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 01-Feb-99 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Now that Microsoft is pushing NT hard for the server market, where >> will UNIX go next, when they give that up? > > I don't have any intention of giving that market up. NT is something > that it's possible to fight on the server, as hard as that might be, > whereas it's almost impossible to fight on the desktop. As I said, > the apps just aren't there on the desktop. On the server, we have > Apache, nntp, sendmail and numerous other free utilities to round out > a pretty reasonable looking functionality picture. For what it's worth: the company I work for has about 2 dozen NT servers (if not less), 450 NetWare 4.11 server, a hand full of NetWare 3.12, 2 megabeautiful AIX boxen, a number of lesser AIX boxen, and the firewalls/nameservers and our desktop machines to administet them are FreeBSD. We have seen time and again that NT doesn't scale. I also know of people who have embraced NT to come back to the open arms of Unix. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven It's a Dance of Energy, asmodai(at)wxs.nl when the Mind goes Binary... Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message