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Date:      Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:08:01 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
To:        Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>
Cc:        John Purser <johnmpurser@home.com>, chat@freebsd.org, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: @home.com's e-mail problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002031604460.14099-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000129143315.C73462@sturm.canonware.com>

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On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Jason Evans wrote:

>On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 12:12:02PM -0800, John Purser wrote:
>I worked at Critical Path (CP), an email outsourcer, for over a year.
>During that year, there were a quite a number of service outages.  CP runs
>its services on a combination of Solaris and FreeBSD boxes.  That CP
>doesn't use NT is a definite plus, but it couldn't begin to make up for the
>real problem: business goals do not emphasize reliability.  If reliability
>were a goal, I expect CP could do about as well using NT as FreeBSD (though
>not for the same cost).  @home may be different, but I doubt it.

Why do you say that?  That if reliability were a goal, the compnay
could do as well with NT as with BSD?

-=> jm <=-

"Do not taunt the Happy Fun Ball."




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