From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jun 17 9:48:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.aracnet.com (mail2.aracnet.com [216.99.193.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2D0837B5C6 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 09:48:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail2.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA23287; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 09:48:45 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id JAA30478; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 09:48:42 -0700 Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 09:48:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Some Person Cc: jswarner@uswest.net, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD at work In-Reply-To: <20000617074140.89748.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Any suggestions on how I can actually give them a better idea what it can > really do and maybe the chance to atleast give it a try. After all, it's > 100% free!!! This could save my company, as well as our clients lots of > money!!! Ahhh, drives me nuts thinking of it... Yeah, First bring in a machine from home if you can loaded with FreeBSD first. Load X-Windows, Star Office or Applix and make it look flashy so that people ask what it is. Once they're aware of it, load Samba on it and start mapping Windows drives to it. Keep all your inportant files on it. 'Oh, just a sec, let me go get it off my FreeBSD machine.' Show people what you've done with it. You'll get a few others interested in it and together you can slowly get familiar enough with it that someday someone senior enough can say. 'Well, lets save you $XXXXX amount by using FreeBSD instead of Windows 3000 Service Pack 17' :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message