From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 17 18:22:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA06490 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 18:22:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from saba.kuentos.guam.net (root@saba.kuentos.guam.net [198.81.233.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA06484 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 18:22:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by saba.kuentos.guam.net (Smail3.1.29.1 #9) id m0ughnT-002EtJC; Thu, 18 Jul 96 11:22 GST Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 11:22:31 +1000 (GST) From: Meltedice To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , Amancio Hasty , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, Domingo Siliceo Subject: Re: Opinions? In-Reply-To: <1431.837633413@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > [Finally moved over exclusively to -chat] > > > 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. > This represents a window of opportunity for us since once someone's > committed to something, be it for economic or for personal preference > reasons, they're probably not inclined to switch away from a solution > which works and they've already got the staff trained on. This is > the same rationale which has folks like DEC and HP donating massive > amounts of hardware and software to colleges - get 'em hooked while > they're young. :-) > > Jordan > I was one of those college kids who got hooked on Novell in the early 90's, when I was a user all I could do was push buttons. Then I actually was hired to learn, use, and discover Unix on an old AT&T 3B2/600G, then to Sun Servers and FreeBSD and BSDI now a days. Wow I am glad I was fortuanate enough to see the light! Bill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ : _ | | /"\ | " I am the Gecko! " | /o o\ | | _\/ \ / \/_ | meltedice@kuentos.guam.net | \\._/ /_.// | | `--, ,----' | http://www.guam.net/home/bhshaw2 | / / | | ^ / \ | KUENTOS CAFE... An IFORMS based Chat | /| ( ) | | / | ,__\ /__, | telnet buri.kuentos.guam.net 3000 | \ \ _//---, ,--\\_ | | \ \ /\ / / /\ | | \ \.___,/ / | "Come on in and see me!!!" | \.______,/ | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~