From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 2 18:18: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from arutam.inch.com (ns.inch.com [207.240.140.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA6C14EEC for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 18:18:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freyes@inch.com) Received: from your-name (freyes.static.inch.com [207.240.212.43]) by arutam.inch.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/UTIL-INCH-2.0.0) with SMTP id VAA01576; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 21:17:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199908030117.VAA01576@arutam.inch.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "bitter@noah.org" Cc: "FreeBSD questions" Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 21:17:43 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Need comparative data Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Aug 1999 00:56:06 -0700 (PDT), bitter@noah.org wrote: >I'm coming from a large company that uses mostly Sun Solaris and a bit of WinNT. >A group of us is trying to put together a low cost system to run a load >balanced web server (currently 4 Ultra2 running Netscape Enterprise server) One common answer to the XYZ vs ABC OS in the Free Unix world is try them! Specially if "coming from a large company" There are business rules, standards and simply the way things are done at each company that have absolutely nothing to do with technical merits... these are many times the things you will need to use to convince the business side to let you choose a tool/OS. I would venture to say that you would get a more favorable response from the business if you show them you are making decisions based on "your setup" and not based solely on "specs". At the very least pick one or two computers for 3 to 5 days and play with each OS. That is very little compared to how much time it would take you to migrate from one OS to another after you have configured everything and it was not what you expected/wanted. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message