From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 21 7:23:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A387937B418 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 07:23:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fALFNcn17643; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:23:38 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <005d01c172a0$7e9b5f10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Toomas Aas" , "Mike Meyer" Cc: References: <200111211506.fALF6n614360@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Subject: Re: home pc use Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:23:32 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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