Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:22:54 -0500 From: Adam Turoff <aturoff@isinet.com> To: "Wood, Richard" <rich@ruh-bath.swest.nhs.uk> Cc: "'freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: this ran through my head yesterday... Message-ID: <99Jan12.110918est.113794@pandora.isinet.com> References: <DD3226627D36D111BBEE00062917BA036300D8@post.ruh-bath.swest.nhs.uk>
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Wood, Richard wrote: > The chances of the powers-that-be type-testing a FreeBSD based solution > are best described as zero. ...today. Has anyone forwarded a first-hand story of the O'Grady mess to John Kirch? Is anyone keeping track of the laundry list of instances where MS does not follow RFCs (to illustrate their policy of de-commoditizing)? > Also, to quote an ex-manager of mine "UNIX isn't strategic, NT is". Now > consider why he is an ex-manager :-) > > Rich (who spends too much time swearing at NT boxes) Pity that your friendly network-neighborhood NT box can be recommissioned as a better-performing FreeBSD box. :-) Not last year, maybe not this year, but next year or the year after we should see the [re-]entry of "Strategic UNIX" in these organizations. Eyes on the prize and all that. -- Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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