From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Oct 29 0:25: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5F7C37B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 00:25:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0097743E88 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 00:25:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Received: from pittgoth.com ([192.168.0.2]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9T8OvmL061646; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 03:24:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Message-ID: <3DBE7164.6050801@pittgoth.com> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 03:30:44 -0800 From: Tom Rhodes User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johnson David Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux For Managers... References: <200210281311.34328.djohnson@acuson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Johnson David wrote: >A coworker and I are planning on replacing about 20 LynxOS lab workstations >with FreeBSD. We originally chose LynxOS because that's what our embedded >products use. But its getting too expensive to support it on workstation, and >they're difficult to maintain. > >I stepped up to the plate and set up a prototype workstation with FreeBSD, >with an identical look-and-feel to the other workstations (mwm, development >scripts, etc), and created a step-by-step guide to installation and >configuration. > >The sole purpose of these workstations is to connect to our embedded products >via cu. > >We are all set to go to roll out FreeBSD to the other lab workstations. But >some Linux advocate in the company is starting to raise a stink (even though >he is unwilling to help in the conversion and subsequent maintenance). Now >the manager in charge of the machines wants a report on why FreeBSD was >chosen instead of Linux. Sigh. > >So what good reasons translated into Manager-ese can I present? > >Thanks, > >David Johnson > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > > > You state 'to expensive' and 'difficult to maintain', now could you produce some statistics? What I mean is how many 'lost' hours over maintaining them, and how much total is 'expensive'. Now use them in a report proving that FreeBSD will save money due to labor hours which can be used better elsewhere. Least, that is what I would do ;) -- Tom Rhodes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message