From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 11 11:51:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8258A37B407 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:51:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA87122; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 13:49:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 13:49:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: j mckitrick Cc: Subject: Re: Can we learn from this article? In-Reply-To: <20011011141126.B6386@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, j mckitrick wrote: > This article, > > http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/14035.html > > from OSOpinion, expresses the concern that a huge opportunity was missed > by not advancing the free Unixen in the gap between Win2k and XP. Now > that XP has headless server control and other features that make it more > condusive, what is the possibility that IT managers will go with XP > instead of a non-MS server OS? Will performance matter at that point? > Or will security be the up-and-coming burning issue for XP? Huh? XP is not a server operating system, and MS is not marketing it as such. Win2K is still their "server OS". The only opportunity that might have been "missed" by anyone is advancing the Open Source OSes as desktop operating systems. Most people already see them as excellent server operating systems. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, and ARM architectures under development - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message