From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 5 8:10:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.ie-online.it (dns.ie-online.it [194.133.148.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C7315039 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 08:10:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from dns.ie-interna.it (host1.ie-online.it [194.133.148.10]) by dns.ie-online.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06572; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 17:10:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from stefano (stefano.ie-interna.it [192.168.0.33]) by dns.ie-interna.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA23006; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 17:10:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990305171030.00aa07f0@relay.alice.it> X-Sender: riva@relay.alice.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 17:10:30 +0100 To: Stanislav Shalunov , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Stefano Riva Subject: Re: Presenting FreeBSD to management In-Reply-To: <9903051553.AA07194@lynxhub.lz.att.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10.53 05/03/99 -0500, you wrote: >What other reasons to use FreeBSD might I suggest? Anyone with >experience talking to bosses? There's an article about this "problem" in the February issue of Daemon News: http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/bossprob.html Anyway, the main non-technical reason to choose FreeBSD over Solaris (or any other commercial Unix), I think, is that with Solaris you would be bound to Sun, i.e. to a single company... and the $$$, of course. --- Stefano Riva Software Engineer - Systems Administrator Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl Phone +39-027528400, Fax +39-027528451 Email sriva@alice.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message