From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 17 14:20:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA21226 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:20:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neworder.cc.uky.edu (neworder.cc.uky.edu [128.163.18.198]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA21201; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:20:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from soward@localhost) by neworder.cc.uky.edu (8.7/Soward0.1) id RAA07178; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 17:20:36 -0500 (GMT-0500) Message-Id: <199607172220.RAA07178@neworder.cc.uky.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.0 v141) Content-Type: text/plain Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.141) From: John Soward Date: Wed, 17 Jul 96 17:20:35 -0500 To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Subject: Re: Opinions? cc: Amancio Hasty , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, Domingo Siliceo , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: soward@service1.uky.edu References: <199607171942.MAA12521@freefall.freebsd.org> Organization: University of Kentucky Technical Services X-URL: "http://neworder.cc.uky.edu/" Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > It's actually not the important figure to look at. Initial hardware and > software costs are a miniscule portion of the cost of deploying any system > on this scale. If you can show that solution X takes less time to install, > is easier to configure, is easier to upgrade, and requires minimal staff > training time to use, (along with being robust and fast, etc) you'll get > people to listen. > Here, Here. I deployed a POP server serving > 25,000 users, pusing well over 1G of mail/week...I hardly touch it now, I'd say < 5 hours/week and most of that is not nec needed enhancements. I fiddled with a toy one on NT with just a few dummy users, and spent more time than that with it...Aside from the POP and other mail related stuff, I'd hate to have to manage 25,000+ users under an NT system...Probably 100 users a day are added/deleted/changed, all handled elsewhere on a Sybase database and processed with a bunch of Perl scripts.. PS: I didn't use FreeBSD, but HPUX, however every indication is that a P-Pro with similar disk/RAM/Fddi would perform just as well as the K200 I'm using. --- John Soward JpS Systems Programmer 'The Midnight sun will burn you up.' University of Kentucky (NeXT and MIME mail OK) -R. Smith :::I'm not speaking for UK. I may not even be speaking for myself:::