From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Aug 9 14:42:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA27171 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 14:42:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA27162 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 14:42:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23370; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 14:42:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd023350; Sun Aug 9 14:41:59 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA19225; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 14:41:55 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808092141.OAA19225@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: help in convincing management not to supplant Unix with NT To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 21:41:55 +0000 (GMT) Cc: gljohns@bellsouth.net, FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980809161908.B11095@freebie.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Aug 9, 98 04:19:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I am trying to convince them that this would be a mistake. This > > situation is complicated by the fact that the Network Administrator > > does not know anything about Unix and has shown an unwillingness to > > learn. Over the last 4 months, the AIX machine that the previous > > Network Administrator setup has been running happily without any > > intervention, while the NT servers have crashed at least twice a > > month. I personally have six FreeBSD machines (workstation usage) > > that have been running without any problems; but this does not seem > > to be enough evidence. Institute crash and reboot logging for each machine. Wait one week to one month. Graph the data. 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