Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 08:48:46 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "David Johnson" <djohnson@acuson.com> Cc: <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: I'm leaving Message-ID: <052001c0dd91$33690190$0300a8c0@oracle> References: <20010515192449.181.qmail@web11705.mail.yahoo.com> <04ed01c0dd8e$2c57f3f0$0300a8c0@oracle> <3B01B090.D0AC2397@acuson.com>
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> Perhaps I am confused by the term "workstation". I don't take it to mean > a consumer-oriented PC, but as a computer geared towards doing general > day-to-day work. Depending upon what your work is, FreeBSD fits the > bill. > One of my clients has a mixed O/S network with the almost traditional FreeBSD gateways / W2K servers / Win9x workstations arrangement. A large percentage of business is done over the net, so we are always concerned about the risk of virii / trojans etc. Obviously moving the workstations to Solaris / FreeBSD / etc would fix that problem immediately, however its impractical because of the number of applications that ONLY work in Windows. Among these are the various accounting / business management programs , plus security / surveillance / process monitoring applications. I've messed with a few emulators but none of them are halfway usable. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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