From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jun 17 0:41:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f283.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.236.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E063C37B67C for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 00:41:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ntvsunix@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 89749 invoked by uid 0); 17 Jun 2000 07:41:40 -0000 Message-ID: <20000617074140.89748.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.53.54.44 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 00:41:40 PDT X-Originating-IP: [209.53.54.44] From: "Some Person" To: jswarner@uswest.net, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD at work Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 00:41:40 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm kinda in the same situation myself and I know as well that FreeBSD not only could, but would out-perform many of our existing and client servers guarenteed. I work for a company that does network consulting and support. Mainly NT and Win2k, not to mention others as well, just not any form of *NIX. I'm no senior there so I don't have much say in things. I've only played with FreeBSD and OpenBSD mostly at home. I started with Linux, and finally some time later made the greatest move of my life - FreeBSD/OpenBSD, never to turn back unless absoloutly needed. NOTE: This is nothing derogatory against Linux, but rather just my personal opinion. I just much more prefer *BSD over Linux for many reasons, but mainly because it does the job and very well at that. Most reliability i've ever seen! Unfortunatly, I've run in many many times that FreeBSD could have been used in replace of NT for our clients, much better, much faster, more reliable, much more powerful, more granular in that it gives so much more control over everything and anything, cheaper and the list just goes on and on... Only reason I don't get to actually implement this type thing is that these seniors have no idea how to use FreeBSD and literally have no concept on how it can outbeat MS Windows XX/XXXX in just about any area! It really bothers me! Any suggestions on how I can actually give them a better idea what it can really do and maybe the chance to atleast give it a try. After all, it's 100% free!!! This could save my company, as well as our clients lots of money!!! Ahhh, drives me nuts thinking of it... > Just thought I'd pass on the news that FreeBSD had it's debut and >was put into action today where I work. As I said in a previous email, >I installed FreeBSD 3.4 on a Compaq Deskpro 2000 (266mhz) machine the >other day and the install went without a hitch. I gave it a dedicated >IP address and got an Apache v1.3 web server going and an FTP server. >I've been tasked with managing our local intranet and plan on using the >FreeBSD machine as a test bed for comparing cost, stability and >performance to other web servers on different platforms like NT and >OS/400. I think it's already won the cost comparison. I created a home >page and linked it to all of our Lotus Notes databases, that are >currently running on an AS/400 (V4R4) Domino Server. I couldn't believe >the difference in speed! Accessing the databases through my Apache >server is a lot faster than using the notes client! The pages look a >lot better in HTML than the old boring flat database style you see when >using the notes client. Anyway, I gave my managers a demonstration and >they were pretty impressed. I think this is just the beginning. I >don't think I'm going to have a problem of finding ways to justify the >use of FreeBSD where I work anymore. FreeBSD rocks!! 8^) > >Joe > > > >-- > > > > > > > > >Only two things are infinite, the Universe and human stupidity, and I'm > not sure about the former. > -Albert Einstein. > 1879-1955. > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message