From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 25 17: 6:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A9FE37B41A for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:06:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 46833 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2002 01:13:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO proxy.pt.com) (151.201.71.209) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 26 Feb 2002 01:13:50 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology To: "Charles Burns" Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD do this... Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:05:17 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02022520051702.01642@proxy.pt.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 25 February 2002 19:47, Charles Burns wrote: > >while I've never seen > > a Windows system that would run in this capacity for any length of time > >without > > handholding from the sysadmin. It should be possible, but I've never > >seen > > it (I think it's a problem with the Windows sysadmins more than Windows > > itself) > > Job security? ;-) Could be, I've seen the same phenomonon (sp? I'm too lazy to check) with other systems, SGI for example - not that there's anything wrong with IRIX, but the folks that were supposed to be supporting it did such a lousy job that the company that was using it will never purchase an SGI box again. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message