Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 19:49:12 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: rootman <rootman@xmission.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Justification for using FreeBSD Message-ID: <3B294D78.2F1390E@iowna.com> References: <01061417404103.00261@blackmirror.xmission.com>
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I'll list the major ones ... and you feel free to ask for more details. In my experience, there's generally only one of these topics that's really important to managers, you just need to figure out which one it is. 1. FreeBSD/Apache is far cheaper (if M$ is done legally) 2. FreeBSD/Apache is more standards compliant 3. FreeBSD/Apache has more add-on options at less cost (php, perl, frontpage extensions, etc ... etc) 4. FreeBSD/Apache has a much lower incidence of security problems than NT/IIS 5. FreeBSD/Apache will perform better on similar hardware than NT/IIS (also part of the cost factor) 6. FreeBSD/Apache won't lock you into an upgrade path that's difficult to escape (and expensive). Hope these help, Bill rootman wrote: > > 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 -- If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then what can I get for two hands in the bush? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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