Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:23:32 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> To: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>, "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <005d01c172a0$7e9b5f10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <200111211506.fALF6n614360@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
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Toomas writes: > IMHO exactly the same applies for commercial > software. Your average secretary is no more able > to get help from commercial provider's support > options than from (for example) this mailing list. But a secretary can usually find someone around who knows enough to help her/him. Additionally, if a single secretary encounters a problem, that is far less urgent for the company than having a mission-critical server down. Similarly, you can easily afford to use freeware for _non-critical_ servers, and it's a very economical way to go. If you have a Web server that can afford to be down for two or three hours once in a blue moon while you look into a bug, then FreeBSD is a better bet than a commercial product. It's not that FreeBSD is any less reliable--on the contrary, it might be very reliable indeed--it's just a question of what happens when and if the system _does_ go down (and almost all systems do, sooner or later). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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