From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 8 21:23:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA08836 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 21:23:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-atm.tampabay.rr.com (ns.tampabay.rr.com [24.92.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA08830 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 21:23:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marrandy@tampabay.rr.com) From: marrandy@tampabay.rr.com Received: from ChaosSolutions.com (dt150n67.tampabay.rr.com [24.92.196.103]) by mail-atm.tampabay.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA17760 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 00:18:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tampabay.rr.com [192.168.0.2] by mail.chaossolutions [192.168.0.1] with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP4l.R) for ; Sun, 09 Aug 1998 00:26:28 -0400 Message-ID: <35CD2411.309ED207@tampabay.rr.com> Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 00:22:41 -0400 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Glenn Johnson CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help in convincing management not to supplant Unix with NT References: <199808090309.WAA00774@gforce.bellsouth.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Return-Path: marrandy@tampabay.rr.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try this. http://www.kirch.net/unix-nt.html Regards...Martin ------------------ Glenn Johnson wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message