Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:37:25 +0100 From: jsha <johann@terrabionic.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: good things to say Message-ID: <20040316083725.GA85813@ninja.terrabionic.com>
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my dear open sourcerers,
i am writing this letter to ask for your assistance in advocating
open source and in particular freebsd for the enterprise.
today i've assembled some information relating to the ever-increasing
benefits of our community, and i was hoping for input from you all
juniors and seniors out there -- again i have a case here where some
microsoft fans is in need of enlightenment -- and along with advanced
visualization (lightwave + flash) i tend to make _the_ open source
advocation which i'll distribute freely to anyone who is or ever will
be in the same situation as me.
please note, i tried making this document as simple as possible.
thank you.
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| WHERE WE ARE
Disadvantages:
- Having a slow network
- Using Microsoft Windows
- Paying for Closed Source software
- Viruses/worms/trojans
Advantages:
- Having a number of computers
- Having access to the Internet
- Being open to new ideas
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| FREEBSD
Disadvantages:
- Might reduce your staff
Advantages:
- Free to anyone
- Created the Internet
- Worldwide development
- Reliable and secure
- Sophisticated
* Contains over 9000 free softwares.
* Easily install any of the services that is critical to
the Internet: Apache (websites), MySQL (databases), Postfix
(e-mail), OpenSSL (encryption)
* Comes with powerful and free ERP/CRM solutions, office and
multimedia tools.
* Because of it's unique architecture, no virus has ever
successfully penetrated its shields.
* Easily emulate, or "impersonate" Windows, so software
native to Windows can run in a virtual environment.
* Designed and implemented with remote management in mind.
* Its open source ensures that these development efforts will
be continued well into the future.
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| COMPARISON
Reliability, FreeBSD:
- Extremely robust
- Servers remain active for years
- Filesystem optimized for high performance
- Excellent memory management
Reliability, Windows:
- The infamous "Blue Screen"
- Uses a lot of system resources
- Servers remain active only for a few months
- Filesystem gets fragmented
- Memory gets corrupt
Performance, FreeBSD:
- Choice for high performance network applications
- Outperforms ANY operating system on equivalent hardware
- The largest server on the Internet runs FreeBSD,
including Yahoo, Qwest and even Hotmail!
Performance, Windows:
- Adequate for routine desktop apps
- But, it is unable to handle heavy network loads.
Security, FreeBSD:
- Subject to massive auditing
- Completely deny access with kernel security levels
- Packet filtering firewall system
- Network intrusion detection tools
- Extensive other built-in security modules
- Rarely reported on CERT
Security, Windows:
- No guarantee
- Being closed source, there is no way to fix or diagnose
any of the security compromises regularly published
about Microsoft systems
Compatibility, FreeBSD:
- Run both BSD and Linux binaries
- Supports network connection with Windows machines
- Emulates virtual Windows environments or Windows binaries
Compatibility, Windows:
- Excellent hardware support
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| WHERE WE WANT TO BE
In a position where information is managed and organized
into powerful databases. Open Source provides the database
MySQL -- a free alternative with equal performance to
the Windows database Oracle, whose drawback is its high
price.
Based on the right database you need the right ERP+CRM
solution. You'd pretty much want to choose Compiere, to
fully integrate the "front office" with the "back office".
Compiere all areas of customer relationship management
and enterprise resource management.
For anything else, members of the Terrabionic consortium
will apply their advanced programming skills (C/C++, Perl
and Python) to make our request come true.
General management:
Customers > Database
Affiliates > Database
Tickets > Database
Schedules > Database
Website > Database
Forum > Database
ERP/CRM management:
Order process > Database
Point of sales > Database
Accounting > Database
Inventory > Database
Distribution > Database
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--
j.
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