From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 23:39:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA3F37B416 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 23:39:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Tue, 2 Apr 2002 00:43:53 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 40EDCBB4C; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 00:43:47 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "jiang shujing" , Subject: Re: Q about the benefit of using freebsd in business Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 00:43:46 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020402054347.40EDCBB4C@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 01 April 2002 10:12 pm, jiang shujing wrote: | To whom it may concern, | | I want to know the benefit of using freebsd in business. How does freebsd | help business? That's a rather open-ended question. Most obviously, FreeBSD offers two benefits over the more typical choices like Microsoft: 1. Stability 2. Price. FreeBSd is free and it's much more stable. The drawback is that it is missing software that most businesses want on the desktop, so this could be an issue for desktop use. For server use, by contrast, any software you would need is not only available, but it's also free, which is a clear advantage. However, other than very general statements like the above, it's hard to say much about FreeBD without some idea of the context. Financial? Megacorporation or small family business? Expert support or something the secretary does in between typing up letters? | | Thanks for your assistant! | | Daisy | -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message