From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Apr 12 19: 9:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from server01.gw.total-web.net (server01.gw.total-web.net [209.186.12.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D2B14E61 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:09:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bangpath@bellsouth.net) Received: from kagero.gw.total-web.net (host-209-214-79-42.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.79.42]) by server01.gw.total-web.net (2.5 Build 2640 (Berkeley 8.8.6)/8.8.4) with SMTP id WAA08918; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:03:29 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990412220810.007ad6e0@mail.atl.bellsouth.net> X-Sender: bangpath@mail.atl.bellsouth.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:08:10 -0700 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: borehawg Subject: Re: FreeBSD server success stories Cc: tjswanso@gie.noh.tva.gov In-Reply-To: <371299A4.5D7F92E7@uswest.net> References: <199904121546.LAA26474@gie.noh.tva.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 06:11 PM 4/12/99 -0700, you wrote: >Toby Swanson N-1417 wrote: >> I have the opportunity to recommend replacing a Sun SPARCserver-1000 >> with an Intel based FreeBSD machine. It will be a general file and >Given these requirements, why did you choose an Intel platform? I >would have chosen an Alpha running Net or OpenBSD. Perhaps the lower cost of Intel? And the name recognition of Intel? Not many corporate/government induhviduals really know anything outside the Windows/Intel option, and since he seemed to imply that he's going up against an NT proponant (also prolly on Intel), that would at least give corporate management some sort of "apples-to-apples" comparison. And of course, he may not be familiar enough with Alpha to really recommend it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message