Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 02:43:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Cc: mjna@mail.telepac.pt, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, articles@daemonnews.org Subject: Re: Gartner on Linux and FreeBSD Message-ID: <199902180243.TAA08114@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <36CB10C3.21249511@softweyr.com> from "Wes Peters" at Feb 17, 99 11:56:03 am
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> > I'm not sure if this has already been reported in the mailing list but > > I just read this small Gartner Group report: > > > > "Divorcing Thin Server Software from the Hardware" > > http://advisor.gartner.com/n_inbox/hotcontent/hc_2121999_3.html > > An excellent summary, with accurate viewpoints. I don't agree with his > summary; I fail to see how anyone is going to help their bottom line > by trying to shoe-horn Winders NT into a "thin" server, but all in > all this is a great article for FreeBSD. > > That's why I've cc'd Daemon News, so this can be added to the News Bytes. The part I though was silly was the "Thin Server OS Recommendations" table, specifically: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thin Server Type OS Choice Reasoning ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Both provide open platform with First: Linux stable, relaiable TCP/IP stacks. Intranet Thin Server Second: FreeBSD FreeBSD provides intellectual property protection. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Uh, am I missing something? "FreeBSD protects your intellectual property; use Linux instead, because you don't want that for some strange reason." Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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