Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 09:31:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Jayson Alvarez <jay2xra@yahoo.com> To: Aaron Benson <ab72@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative? Message-ID: <20040724163133.87527.qmail@web51608.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <000001c47178$5cfec070$6500a8c0@giga7nnxp>
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--- Aaron Benson <ab72@optushome.com.au> wrote: > Hi, > > This email is going to any Linux house whom has.. <<<----chomp---->>>> This is FreeBSD's mailing list... NOT Linux. Hope you get this one. As I believe is the summary of all that you are trying to say: > what can Linux do for > us? As I've said above, this is FreeBSD's list, not Linux.. But anyway, let's just say you're trying to speak of Unix and all of its flavors such as that of Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX etc.. Well, I can assure you these things: First, if you will use Linux or FreeBSD or any other free variants of Unix let's say for your company's server or desktops' operating system, you can save your company a lot of money in liscensing coz' most of these operating systems are totally free!! Second, if ever you are wondering if you can still do your office works, such as that of MS Office applications in Unix.. well, if you can't find the software "MS Word" in applications that were ported to them... chances are you will find yourself a better counter part of it. This includes any other software that you are using in Windows(media player, Excel, Outlook etc.) Third, mind you.. these operating systems are engineered perfectly for server computers and so, if you are planning to establish an internet server, database server, mail server, isp server, dns server, or any other server that you may think of.. these free Unix flavors are what you should be considering. Finally.. those three things I've mentioned above can only be possible if you have the technical knowledge and some willingness to invest on it. Because you are not just installing on your home pc but that whole company of yours, you will be facing a very tough decision and perhaps a huge amount of careful considerations. Anyway, good luck to you then. Hope you find this one helpful. -Mark Jayson Alvarez Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Polytechnic University of the Philippines 2000-2004 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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