From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 8 20:10:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA02094 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 20:10:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gforce.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-148-89.msy.bellsouth.net [209.214.148.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA01962 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 20:10:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glenn@bellsouth.net) Received: from bellsouth.net (localhost.bellsouth.net [127.0.0.1]) by gforce.bellsouth.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA00774 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:09:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn@bellsouth.net) Message-Id: <199808090309.WAA00774@gforce.bellsouth.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Glenn Johnson Subject: help in convincing management not to supplant Unix with NT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 22:09:37 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, At my place of employment, the management team, who are basically computer illiterate, have decided that there should be no Unix machines providing network or Internet services, only NT machines. I am trying to convince them that this would be a mistake. This situation is complicated by the fact that the Network Administrator does not know anything about Unix and has shown an unwillingness to learn. Over the last 4 months, the AIX machine that the previous Network Administrator setup has been running happily without any intervention, while the NT servers have crashed at least twice a month. I personally have six FreeBSD machines (workstation usage) that have been running without any problems; but this does not seem to be enough evidence. I, along with a couple of other people are trying to present evidence to keep Unix systems running at our site. I searched the FreeBSD archives and found the reference to the article by John Kirsch about Unix vs. NT and have submitted that to management. I am curious if anybody else has had to go through this type of nonsense and could provide any pointers. I am particularly interested in Unix vs. NT for mail service. All pointers and moral support are greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Glenn Johnson gljohns@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message