Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 16:19:08 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Glenn Johnson <gljohns@bellsouth.net> Cc: FreeBSD advocacy list <FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: help in convincing management not to supplant Unix with NT Message-ID: <19980809161908.B11095@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199808090309.WAA00774@gforce.bellsouth.net>; from Glenn Johnson on Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 10:09:37PM -0500 References: <199808090309.WAA00774@gforce.bellsouth.net>
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Moved to -advocacy. I don't suppose -questions is really wrong, but -advocacy is probably better. On Saturday, 8 August 1998 at 22:09:37 -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote: > Greetings, > > At my place of employment, the management team, who are basically computer > illiterate, have decided that there should be no Unix machines providing > network or Internet services, only NT machines. Sure, that makes sense. The Internet runs on UNIX. Why use it to connect? My sumpathies. > I am trying to convince them that this would be a mistake. This > situation is complicated by the fact that the Network Administrator > does not know anything about Unix and has shown an unwillingness to > learn. Over the last 4 months, the AIX machine that the previous > Network Administrator setup has been running happily without any > intervention, while the NT servers have crashed at least twice a > month. I personally have six FreeBSD machines (workstation usage) > that have been running without any problems; but this does not seem > to be enough evidence. > I, along with a couple of other people are trying to present > evidence to keep Unix systems running at our site. I searched the > FreeBSD archives and found the reference to the article by John > Kirsch about Unix vs. NT and have submitted that to management. I am > curious if anybody else has had to go through this type of nonsense > and could provide any pointers. I am particularly interested in Unix > vs. NT for mail service. I've been collecting some URLs. You might like to check out these (I've left out the Kirch article) http://gpg.com/cnme/0496/file91.html http://www.ncworldmag.com/ncw-04-1998/ncw-04-nextten.html?jw (this is the first of three or four articles on the subject; follow up via the links) http://www.bsdi.com/info/ntvsunix (from BSDI, who of course have their axe to grind. But they have some good links on this page). http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/msapogee.html (a bit old now, and possibly not so relevant) http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/980730/crl_networ_1.html (read how wcarchive.cdrom.com, running FreeBSD, outperformed 40 Microsoft machines running NT). This is still my favourite. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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