From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 16:41:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D0C837B403 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:41:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rootman@xmission.com) Received: from [166.70.9.3] (helo=blackmirror.xmission.com) by mail.xmission.com with smtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 15Agjg-0000ZZ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:41:13 -0600 From: rootman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Justification for using FreeBSD Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:19:52 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01061417404103.00261@blackmirror.xmission.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I don't know if this is the correct list to post to for this. Please let me know if -chat, -advocacy or -newbies would be better choices. I am a Technical Analyst for a software company of approximately 300 employees. About five months ago, news came from upper management that they wanted us to have an intranet in place at our office. I had been experimenting with FreeBSD 3.4 at the time and already had it running Apache and had a bunch of static pages in place. Our Network Administrator jumped on the wagon and got MS IIS running on one of his NT 4.0 servers. Now, we have a fairly large amount of content, split between his web server and my Apache server on FreeBSD. The manager I had when I set up my FreeBSD box thought that what I had done was great and was impressed with FreeBSD/Apache. I recently got a new manager who doesn't know the BSD's from Open Source and wants me to justify why we need to have two web servers instead of one and why we need FreeBSD/Apache. Basically, she wants to know how FreeBSD/Apache compares to NT 4.0/MS IIS. I really don't want to try to fight the battle of getting all of our intranet content moved to FreeBSD/Apache. This would also be a lot of work, since a lot of content is already in place on MS IIS. So, she also wants to know what the advantages/disadvantages would be of having two web servers instead of one. I've already obtained some information from the FAQ at Apache.org and from FreeBSD.org but I was wondering if anyone could provide any additional examples, info or web sites I could check out. I need to be able to justify FreeBSD/Apache and the use of two web servers or I'm afraid it will be "Bye Bye" for FreeBSD where I work. Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message