From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 08:48:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 278D737B401 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:48:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D06B343FAF for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:48:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mfromwald@gmx.at) Received: (qmail 12874 invoked by uid 65534); 31 Mar 2003 16:48:55 -0000 Received: from chello062178160230.10.14.vie.surfer.at (EHLO foo) (62.178.160.230) by mail.gmx.net (mp018-rz3) with SMTP; 31 Mar 2003 18:48:55 +0200 From: "Moritz Fromwald" To: Chuck Swiger , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:48:21 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3E888D75.8576.4FBDC7F@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <3E886BFA.70509@mac.com> References: <3E888417.27112.4D74274@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a, DE v4.02 R1) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Subject: Re: supports costs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: mfromwald@gmx.at List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:48:59 -0000 Wow, that was quick Wow, that was quick, Well, as a school project, I had to redesign a SME companys network under licence-free and licencing aspects. The firm needs support for 10 workstations, ie file sharing, a backup solution, internet and email access. My partner and I implemented a Freebsd 4.7 file server with samba 2.2.8a, running on a P4 2000MHz 512DDR RRAM machine with 2*60 GB IDE HDD with a RAID 1, performed by a hardware controller. The system needs to be flexible for future adoption like webserving and its own SMTP/POP3 and is compared with a Windows 2000 standard server, as far as licence, support and downtime costs are concerned. Thx a lot for your help greez moritz fromwald Datum: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:25:30 -0500 Von: Chuck Swiger Organisation: The Courts of Chaos An: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Kopie an: Moritz Fromwald Betreff: Re: supports costs > Moritz Fromwald wrote: > > Does anyone know good information resources on long- > > term support costs for freebsd or a comparison with > > coresponding M$ Products? > > Sure. Check out SANS.org, salary.com, or anything else that lets you > compare the annual salary for FreeBSD admins versus M$ admins. Then add > the license costs of the M$ products in question, adjust by a fudge > factor representing the difference in relative productivity, management > whims, and all of the other unmeasureable factors unique to your situation. > > If you tell us what you're doing, how many users, and so forth, a bunch > of people here can probably reel off rough estimates that will be in the > right ballpark, anyway. > > -Chuck >