From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 15 15:48:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mailin3.email.bigpond.com (juicer24.bigpond.com [139.134.6.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E2BD37B424 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 15:48:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle ([139.134.4.51]) by mailin3.email.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GDEFM800.AA2; Wed, 16 May 2001 08:54:08 +1000 Received: from CPE-61-9-142-177.vic.bigpond.net.au ([61.9.142.177]) by mail7.bigpond.com (Claudes-Bashful-MailRouter V2.9c 15/11874648); 16 May 2001 08:49:12 Message-ID: <052001c0dd91$33690190$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "David Johnson" Cc: References: <20010515192449.181.qmail@web11705.mail.yahoo.com> <04ed01c0dd8e$2c57f3f0$0300a8c0@oracle> <3B01B090.D0AC2397@acuson.com> Subject: Re: I'm leaving Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 08:48:46 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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