From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 5 13:21:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22308 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 13:21:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22282 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 13:21:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22909; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 13:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <36192A34.8236DFD0@dal.net> Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 13:21:08 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-0929 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karl Denninger CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advocacy - SAMBA as an NTAS replacement References: <19981005121318.A15283@Denninger.Net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Karl Denninger wrote: > Then price NTAS and then compare it with $0 + $0 (FreeBSD + Samba). > > Tell me why everyone in their right mind isn't doing exactly this? Actually a lot of people are. I hear stories (from reliable sources) all the time about people in IS departments who've quietly been replacing NT machines with some variation of Unix + Samba because the NT stuff was a nightmare to maintain and secure. In more than one location I know of people who've kept the NT boxes "out front" with shiny things on the screen for the managers to point to when doing tours. If my experience is representative of a larger trend (and from what I've read it is), the next wave of upgrades won't be to NT 5, it'll be "upgrading back" to unix. Should be interesting. :) Doug (who thinks that FreeBSD + Samba could become as big or bigger than FreeBSD + Apache is now with the right marketing...) -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** Go PADRES! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message