From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 1 20:20: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8802A37B5C9 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 20:20:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA35379; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 20:20:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <395EB4E0.5BDE26B0@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 20:20:00 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0629 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: SoftGuitar@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why BSD for my company ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG SoftGuitar@aol.com wrote: > > Dear Sirs, > > I am new to Unix but am taking training usiing a SCO system for my class. > What advantage would I have using FreeBSD over getting a SCO or Solaris > system for my little growing business. Three simple answers. 1. It works as well or better than anything you can buy on the market. 2. It's free. 3. You have the source code for the entire system, soup to nuts. Therefore you can add your own local hacks to the system, and more quickly solve any problems that might come up for yourself. There is also a community of developers that are willing to help, but sometimes you get what you pay for here. Commercial support products are being developed, but it's rare that problems can't be solved via the mailing list support. Take a look at our web page for more information, including the "gallery" of commercial sites that use FreeBSD. Good luck, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message