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Date:      Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:39:50 -0700
From:      "Sameer R. Manek" <manek@quadrunner.com>
Cc:        <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: 3.5-stable ?
Message-ID:  <000801bf150b$1329e700$2200000a@after.pw2.within.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910121548270.34918-100000@hub.freebsd.org>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:kris@hub.freebsd.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 3:56 PM
> To: Michael Lucas
> Cc: Sameer R. Manek; stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: 3.5-stable ?
>
>
> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Michael Lucas wrote:
>
> > You know that, and I know that.
> >
> > Clients like the little piece of paper.  Especially when I bill
> > hourly, and they've been burned by a variety of MCSEs.  ;)
>
> You're not going to get a piece of paper guaranteeing the stability of the
> system - this is free software, there will be no fairings, etc. At best,
> you could get a verbal statement from jordan about how he feels about
> -stable maturity, and the opinion of the userbase (i.e. this list), but
> nothing you can really use as a shield against your clients if things
> don't work, except "it works fine for most other people"
>

Not even commercial companies certify their product will work for you.
Read the fine print for NT Server, (let's avoid the flamewars please, we all
know which is the better os)

Show your clients this url http://www.freebsd.org/gallery/gallery.html
it it works well for that very long list of companies
http://www.cdrom.com/stats/wcarchive.html
would also be a good demonstration url, though it seems that
ftp.cdrom.com get's rebooted a lot.




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