Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 01:35:57 -0400 From: joel2a@yahoo.com To: rootman <rootman@xmission.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Justification for using FreeBSD Message-ID: <4.2.2.20010615011057.03149220@pop.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <01061417404103.00261@blackmirror.xmission.com>
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1. There's the netcraft..com surveys http://www.netcraft.com/survey/ which show's Apache is used by 62.55 percent of web servers. while Microsoft-IIS is used by 20.64. 2. FreeBSD is also good for a free unlimited user mail server with sendmail, free POP3 and list server with majordomo. Most NT mail servers are not free and NT does not have a POP3 server included. This the major reason I got it for! 3. Redundancy. 4. Yahoo and Hotmail use it. You could list the others. 5. You can use less expensive PC's for future expansion and at no cost for extra licenses for them Joel PS. My derogatory comment: Why is a manager who doesn't know that in charge of making IT decisions?!! At 05:19 PM 6/14/01 -0600, you 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 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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