Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 07:15:32 -0600 From: Joe Warner <jswarner@uswest.net> To: Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> Cc: "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>, " Joe.Warner@smed.com" <Joe.Warner@smed.com> Subject: Re: Manager's response re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <3954B474.290545F3@uswest.net> References: <200006240603.CAA37523@sanson.reyes.somos.net>
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Francisco,
That's really great! I'm glad to hear about someone else making making
some head-way. This will be a great opportunity for you to get some good
experience and you'll be in a better position in the future to pass this
experience on to others. At the same time, you'll be doing your company and
co-workers a service by introducing them to different/better technology. Your
situation does seem similar to mine and maybe if we continue to share our
experiences, we can help each other and others who might be facing a similar
situation. Keep up the good work. 8^}
Joe
Francisco Reyes wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:45:04 -0600, Joe.Warner@smed.com wrote:
>
> >Here's a response I got from one of my managers re: FreeBSD. Any comments
> >or replys would be welcome. Thanks.
>
> The points raised by your boss are very good and very real.
> I don't know your environment and don't know what would work for
> you, but I am going to share what is going on where I work.
>
> I just started a week ago a job at a place where I used to work.
> Since I left they are now using Unix more than when I had left.
> Unfortunately they don't have much Unix knowledge inhouse.
> >From talking to the network manager I gathered that he was
> worried about this lack of knowledge.
>
> On the other hand I have the head of HR which mentioned that she
> wanted an intranet.
>
> Having this info I decided to try to use this to my advantage. I
> talked to the network admin and asked him "what was his feeling
> about Unix". He flat out told me that he was not happy with NT
> and that "previous management" had replaced some Netware and Mac
> boxes with NT and things were worse. He again repeated his
> concern about in-house knowledge... I was waiting for that. I
> told him that I wanted to setup an Intranet to use it for
> "training" and that eventually we could use it "officially" for
> putting information. At the mean time I have been talking to
> the tech guys (programmers and network people) and gather their
> support and interest. Mentioned to the HR admin that we were
> "thinking" on starting to do some initial work on the Intranet.
>
> Basically I have been researching the interest and try to
> present FreeBSD as a solution to particular business needs,
> training and an Intranet.
>
> I asked the Network admin if he could give me any old box to
> install FreeBSD. His answer was that there is an old fileserver
> that he could give me as long as he cleared with our boss. I
> don't know specs, but I am sure that that computer is much
> better than what I would have settled for. :-)
>
> Francisco
>
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