From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 17 12:38:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1331B16A4B3 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:38:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEAA043FDD for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:38:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:2460 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19zi7z-0003DX-5R; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:38:15 -0700 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:35:53 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-151.acuson.com ([157.226.46.151]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id SXCQZ3HA; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:35:05 -0700 From: Johnson David To: Jon Mercer Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:37:12 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <4BA256918ACE7449BD7896E65711C88B4A7F4C@1UPMC-MSX8.isdip.upmc.edu> <200309171132.04405.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <3F68B121.5020103@achean.com> In-Reply-To: <3F68B121.5020103@achean.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309171237.12609.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *19zi7z-0003DX-5R*S2olhShd.SQ* X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sorry. X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 19:38:29 -0000 On Wednesday 17 September 2003 12:08 pm, Jon Mercer wrote: > 1. Desktop computing is hardly the area where massive efficiency is > going to be all the rage in the future. Windows can hardly be > described as the paragon of fast computing on the desktop. But unfortunately, the desktop is all anyone thinks about. Just look at Linux. IBM, SGI and Sun are all gungho over Linux, the media is paying attention, it's being scaled up to the really big iron and scaled down to the smalled embedded devices. But all you ever hear from a lot of *Linux* advocates is "Linux will fail without the desktop". > 2. On the server side, having an OS that is as efficient as possible > is important because these servers often need to be more scalable > than on the desktop to handle the increasing loads of growing > businesses. It just strikes me that Linux, with more effort being > placed into threading, etc. is better placed as a server OS than > FBSD. It's going to be a long long time before FreeBSD is ready for the IBM big iron or to replace the million dollar Solaris servers running the enterprise. But neither is Windows, but that's not stopping stupid execs from trying. Perception is everything in this market, like it or not. But there's no reason for FreeBSD not to be running the print, file and web servers. There's no reason for it not to be the development workstation of choice. It ought to make an awesome POS terminal. It's still the number one choice for ISPs. Maybe Linux will grab all the Fortune 500 companies. But I see no reason why FreeBSD can't grab all of the small business market. David