Date: Wed, 17 Jul 96 17:20:35 -0500 From: John Soward <soward@neworder.cc.uky.edu> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, Domingo Siliceo <dsiliceo@adam.es>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opinions? Message-ID: <199607172220.RAA07178@neworder.cc.uky.edu> References: <199607171942.MAA12521@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> > It's actually not the important figure to look at. Initial hardware and > software costs are a miniscule portion of the cost of deploying any system > on this scale. If you can show that solution X takes less time to install, > is easier to configure, is easier to upgrade, and requires minimal staff > training time to use, (along with being robust and fast, etc) you'll get > people to listen. > Here, Here. I deployed a POP server serving > 25,000 users, pusing well over 1G of mail/week...I hardly touch it now, I'd say < 5 hours/week and most of that is not nec needed enhancements. I fiddled with a toy one on NT with just a few dummy users, and spent more time than that with it...Aside from the POP and other mail related stuff, I'd hate to have to manage 25,000+ users under an NT system...Probably 100 users a day are added/deleted/changed, all handled elsewhere on a Sybase database and processed with a bunch of Perl scripts.. PS: I didn't use FreeBSD, but HPUX, however every indication is that a P-Pro with similar disk/RAM/Fddi would perform just as well as the K200 I'm using. --- John Soward <a href="http://www.uky.edu/~soward">JpS</a>; Systems Programmer 'The Midnight sun will burn you up.' University of Kentucky (NeXT and MIME mail OK) -R. Smith :::I'm not speaking for UK. I may not even be speaking for myself:::
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