From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 24 05:05:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA08279 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 24 May 1998 05:05:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from red.csi.cam.ac.uk (exim@red.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA08274 for ; Sun, 24 May 1998 05:05:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk) Received: from bjc23 (helo=localhost) by red.csi.cam.ac.uk with local-smtp (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0ydZWI-0006nT-00; Sun, 24 May 1998 13:04:54 +0100 Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 13:04:54 +0100 (BST) From: Ben Cohen X-Sender: bjc23@red.csi.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk To: "John T. Farmer" cc: billy@idiom.com, fpawlak@execpc.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD A Solution For Business In-Reply-To: <199805232343.TAA05828@sabre.goldsword.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >To paraphrase a quote from my younger days in the industry: > > "Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft..." > >The simple truth is that shops that would be swayed by such arguements >are already running or considering running Solaris, Idrix, HPUX, Aix, etc. >That is, shops that are already willing to consider a non-Microsoft >solution. In any case we can always find examples of people who *were* fired for buying Microsoft; for example, I seem to remember a URL (from this list) about banks (NatWest in Britain and something in Australia, I think) which started to use NT and had massive problems, resulting in the person responsible being fired. Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message