From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 14:02:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B14816A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:02:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-d20.mx.aol.com (imo-d20.mx.aol.com [205.188.139.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E48E543D41 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:02:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from TM4525@aol.com) Received: from TM4525@aol.com by imo-d20.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id n.d.35eaa5c5 (25305) for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:02:07 -0400 (EDT) From: TM4525@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:02:06 EDT To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5114 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: dummynet X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:02:12 -0000 In a message dated 10/29/04 9:13:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time, hmiller@intradyn.com writes: >>The boss pays his sysadmin every week, no matter what. The Boss >>expects that the systems will runs with the least overall cost. >>Sometimes that means buying something, sometimes that means configuring >>what is there. >Unfortunately most ISPs don't know much about business, so I guess >explaining the concept of opportunity costs to you would be a waste of >time. >Maybe you should look up opportunity costs, because that is the >technical term for what I said. Each business needs to weigh the >opportunity costs. For some it is better to buy, others to roll their >own. No, what you "say" is that there is nothing else productive that the sysAdmin can be doing. I can't imagine thats the case for most ISPs. Plus you have the unknown in the future when you install something loosely supported, which is another "cost" of how much downtime you'll have, or how much tech time will be wasted, because you didn't buy something reliable.