From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 14 12:30:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB39937B416; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:30:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBEKTTt77769; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:29:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:29:29 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" X-X-Sender: To: Hiten Pandya Cc: , , Subject: Re: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD) In-Reply-To: <20011214200410.74625.qmail@web21101.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20011214121727.A16958-100000@localhost> X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you X-TO-THE-FBI-CIA-AND-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Hiten Pandya wrote: > Lets say that you are right about this, or lets just > say you are, than why would companies like > register.com > use Linux for suppose in their production for their > internet business. have you asked them how the move went? while mild services migration (DNS, e-mail, etc) is fairly painless (i shouldn't have been as arbitrary in saying it's never painless..) it still involves a good amount of work and planning. i very much doubt they moved to linux on all their production or test machines. i suspect that they still have a good amount of Sun/Solaris machines in the offices there, and that the major DB machines are still running Solaris. looking through their employement pages, though, i suspect that they're not really running that much linux after all. it seems to be mostly NT and Solaris. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message