Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:33:13 -0400 From: "Lapinski, Michael (Research)" <lapinski@crd.ge.com> To: "'Kenneth P. Stox'" <stox@imagescape.com>, Ralph Forsythe <rf-list@centerone.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Rackspace-like provider for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <E4AAC34FE3CF564D8AE89EB8AC333FD705CFEEFE@XMB03CRDGE>
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Has there been a stated list of reasons or is
this all word of mouth? I'd like to read thier
reasoning and examples of the insecurities.
-mtl
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Michael Lapinski
Computer Scientist
GE Research
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
->-----Original Message-----
->From: Kenneth P. Stox [mailto:stox@imagescape.com]
->Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 4:30 PM
->To: Ralph Forsythe
->Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
->Subject: Re: Rackspace-like provider for FreeBSD?
->
->
->On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 12:32, Ralph Forsythe wrote:
->> Too insecure??
->>
->> Uhh... <confused look on face>
->>
->> What's their alternative? Linux easily tops FreeBSD on
->*nix advisories,
->> anything MS-based blows their theory out the door. About
->the only stuff
->> better would be perhaps NetBSD, and for sure OpenBSD.
->>
->> That's either a line of BS, or they hired some linux-only
->admin who is
->> afraid of anything BSD and just wants to get rid of it. At
->least IMHO.
->> Security is not a major problem on FreeBSD however, at
->least for an admin
->> with half a brain.
->
->That's my take on it, too. I was simply shocked when they told me that
->was the reason they were no longer selling FreeBSD machines. I guess
->they are only hiring admin's with quarter brains these days. :-(
->
->-Ken Stox
-> stox@imagescape.com
->
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