Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 11:10:25 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Allen <SlackWareWolf@comcast.net> Cc: Advocacy FreeBSD <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD ZFS advocacy Message-ID: <20150408111025.6891a6f6@B85M-HD3-0.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <14c914f65d0.277d.49425171f56f22d4251074c8012c3090@comcast.net> References: <20150330085304.GB14538@apple.rat.burntout.org> <5519B3C0.70202@gmail.com> <FDA6A596-825B-4D62-9E0B-DB3F4EE7A3F5@FreeBSD.org> <14c914f65d0.277d.49425171f56f22d4251074c8012c3090@comcast.net>
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Hi, On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 20:37:25 -0400 Allen <SlackWareWolf@comcast.net> wrote: > > > You could also try contacting iX directly. If your company likes > > proprietary solutions, then iX can sell you something that looks to > > management like a proprietary system, even if it doesn't to the > > people actually using it... > > Hahaha! I'm sorry to waste peoples tome with basically a giggle, but > when I read that line, I just instantly had a mental image of the > usual pointy haired moron managers all sitting around a boardroom > table saying to one person that FreeBSD being free must have no real > value, and then 5 minutes later someone showing then the same OS but > with a price tag from a company and then them all shaking their heads > yes in agreement because the sticker for the price tag is shiny and > looks good. Lol, sorry about the basically useless reply but it > brightened my day and maybe by pointing it out, it may brighten > someone elses day as well. a long time ago, I did some work for a e-commerce site. Huge machines with the need for a huge firewall. So, the people purchased a huge firewall which was practically a FreeBSD machine based on standard hardware. The client was happy to pay roughly ten times the price of the plain hardware. Erich
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