From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 8 18:44:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA26218 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 18:44:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25874 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 18:44:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-150.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.150]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA30281 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 20:44:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA11488 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 20:20:08 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199804090120.UAA11488@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Netscape: Linux a top priority (news.com article) In-reply-to: Message from "Louis A. Mamakos" of "Wed, 08 Apr 1998 00:51:41 EDT." <199804080451.AAA12800@whizzo.TransSys.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 20:20:08 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Moved to -chat. "Louis A. Mamakos" writes: > > An interesting question is of the high-volume FreeBSD-based web servers, > how many would want to purchase the Netscape product rather than just > using Apache? Was in a position to buy a Netscape server for FreeBSD if was was available about 6 months ago. Needed commercial license to use SSL. Options appeared to be: 1) Stronghold, was about to increase in price from $995. 2) BSDI, $995 including Netscape Fastpath (is that right name?). What we ultimately did is "borrow" an SGI O2, which comes with the Netscape Fastpath product as part of the basic system. Never did advance to the point where we enabled https, The Powers That Be got cold feet ("you mean we have to buy our own internet connection?") -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message