Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:35:57 +0000 (GMT) From: "Open Systems Inc." <opsys@open-systems.net> To: Dan Dockery <danarchy@endeneu.com> Cc: "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Is there a reseller program? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990204082425.7801C-100000@freebsd.omaha.com> In-Reply-To: <36b9a41536bb2299@mail0.mailsender.net> (added by mail0.mailsender.net)
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On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Dan Dockery wrote: > Another thing that would probably help raise awareness of FreeBSD would > be a certification program of some sort. Consulting companies tend to be > big on being able to say "This guy has an MCSE and a CNE and a CCIE, etc. > etc." You could call it a FBSDE or something similar. There are a few > companies who are coming out with Linux certification programs (Redhat > and Digital Metrics come to mind), but the problem with that is the > certifications will (most likely) be distribution-specific. FBSD has the > advantage that there is only one distribution. I would agree a FreeBSD certified course or test would be cool. But the fact is FreeBSD is not large enough for that to mean anything. It might to some big shops that rely on FreeBSD. But 99.99% of all clients will wonder what that is. I think the best effort we can make is to get a boxed FreeBSD distribution out into stores, and write another book. The man pages have to go from greg's book IMO. No one bought the ORA 4.4BSD books because they we're just reprinted man pages. I would suggest to greg that the man pages from his book be removed. That greatly decreases the size of the book though. Another thing that was mentioned is the lack of GUI tools for managing a FBSD box. Someone at berkeley is writing a set of GUI tools based on Qt. It looks promising. I recently joined an all NT shop *UGH*, and have been trying like mad to get FreeBSD boxes to replace the NT ones. The biggest beef here, aside from them being totally clueless and saying FreeBSD cannot outperform NT, is that things are just to hard to manage. For instance DNS. If they have around 100 different domains, there are no easy GUI tools that for example allow you to make a change on one domain and clone it to the rest. Like chaning the primary and secondary name servers. You have no tool you can just click "Make change for all domains?" etc.. I don't think we are lacking in power, performance, or networking. What we lack is the complete idiot tools to use them. I used to think that it was not that hard for the average person to run a FreeBSD network because once you configure things they run forever. But since starting work here, people HAVE to be spoonfed with the easiest GUI tools. If we had those I believe we would be right up there with MS. Build it and they will come, or so they say. At least thats my recent revelation on why people are choosing NT over unix. It is soooo easy, simple, and it has 1000's of features on every tool and app. Thats my .02 anyway Chris -- "Join Team-FreeBSD on cracking RC5-64! grab you client now and HELP OUT! http://www.distributed.net/cgi/select.cgi" ===================================| Open Systems FreeBSD Consulting. FreeBSD 2.2.8 is available now! | Phone: 402-573-9124 -----------------------------------| 3335 N. 103 Plaza #14, Omaha, NE 68134 FreeBSD: The power to serve! | E-Mail: opsys@open-systems.net http://www.freebsd.org | Consulting, Network Engineering, Security ===================================| http://open-systems.net -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQENAzPemUsAAAEH/06iF0BU8pMtdLJrxp/lLk3vg9QJCHajsd25gYtR8X1Px1Te gWU0C4EwMh4seDIgK9bzFmjjlZOEgS9zEgia28xDgeluQjuuMyUFJ58MzRlC2ONC foYIZsFyIqdjEOCBdfhH5bmgB5/+L5bjDK6lNdqD8OAhtC4Xnc1UxAKq3oUgVD/Z d5UJXU2xm+f08WwGZIUcbGcaonRC/6Z/5o8YpLVBpcFeLtKW5WwGhEMxl9WDZ3Kb NZH6bx15WiB2Q/gZQib3ZXhe1xEgRP+p6BnvF364I/To9kMduHpJKU97PH3dU7Mv CXk2NG3rtOgLTEwLyvtBPqLnbx35E0JnZc0k5YkABRO0JU9wZW4gU3lzdGVtcyA8 b3BzeXNAb3Blbi1zeXN0ZW1zLm5ldD4= =BBjp -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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