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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:19:34 -0700
From: pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows
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On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 17:22:17 +0200, Stefan [Swebase AB]
<stefan@swebase.com> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have tried searching for this but i only get reports made by students
> and private programmers, i trust a programmer more than a large
> corporation any day but to show a person i know and convince him i need
> some serious investigations made by large corporations into comparing
> BSD and Windows systems in various areas. I would love to get some links
> that some of you have in your bookmarks on this. The person i'm trying
> to convince is a hardcore MS fan so i need real evidence of why BSD is
> better than MS products in server environments.
> 
> Some friends of mine have told me that yahoo, msn and microsoft all use
> FreeBSD but until i can show him that and prove it to him that means
> nothing.
> 

This just came out, should be pretty usefull:

http://linux.oreilly.com/news/bsd_ss.pdf

-pete