From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 17:41:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oddjob.adhesivemedia.com (oddjob.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFE2937B401 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:41:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by oddjob.adhesivemedia.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5F0fJn91370; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:41:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:41:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: rootman Cc: Subject: Re: Justification for using FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <01061417404103.00261@blackmirror.xmission.com> Message-ID: <20010614173906.J89508-100000@oddjob.adhesivemedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 In addition to all the other information people have provided you have to stress that it's *all* free... sure if you already have the license for NT then you've paid for it, but what about the upgrade? What about when you decide you want a database, etc? Do you really want to pay for SQLServer instead of using MySQL/PostgreSQL for free? (yes, I know both will run on Windows, but that probably wouldn't fly if they have a problem with apache in the first place). -philip On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message