From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 29 13:48:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFB56162E0 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:48:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12Efj3-0000kX-00; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 21:48:13 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA87024; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 21:48:13 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 21:48:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Will Andrews Cc: John Purser , "'freebsd-chat'" Subject: Re: costs for solaris vs windows In-Reply-To: <20000129160409.G45988@shadow.blackdawn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Will Andrews wrote: >> In this article: >> http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/22/solaris8.ent.idg/index.html > ^^^^^^^^ > >Didn't you notice this? I don't quite understand the URL.... does that mean it is a solaris node? > >> Is this possible? I thought the reason many companies were going back >> to Unix was because of lower costs? Or is this just referring to >> commercial Unix? And since when has M$ offered value as one of its >> selling points? > >Yes, I imagine they're referring to things such as Solaris, Digital >UNIX, and BSD/OS. I honestly couldn't give a rat's behind about that.. I'm not quite sure i follow you. You don't care about commercial Unix costs? Or what they are saying about the comparison? > >-- >Will Andrews >GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- >?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ >G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? > -=> jm <=- "Do not taunt the Happy Fun Ball." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message