From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 5:14:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (mail7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3894337B405 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 05:14:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Tue, 2 Apr 2002 08:14:17 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 38B5ABB39; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 08:13:59 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Mike Meyer Subject: Re: Q about the benefit of using freebsd in business Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 08:13:58 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: "jiang shujing" , References: <20020402054347.40EDCBB4C@i8k.babbleon.org> <15529.27413.622787.524783@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <15529.27413.622787.524783@guru.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020402131359.38B5ABB39@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 02 April 2002 03:25 am, Mike Meyer wrote: | In <20020402054347.40EDCBB4C@i8k.babbleon.org>, Brian T.Schellenberger typed: | > On Monday 01 April 2002 10:12 pm, jiang shujing wrote: | > The drawback is that it is missing software that most businesses want on | > the desktop, so this could be an issue for desktop use. For server use, | > by contrast, any software you would need is not only available, but it's | > also free, which is a clear advantage. | | Not quite right. What's missing is the *specific* software that some | businesses want on the desktop. As a general class, everything most | business want is available. What's missing is vertical market | software, and the ability to exchange files that use a some | proprietary formats. If you're not dealing with one of those two | cases, then FreeBSD works just fine for the desktop. If you have to | deal with one of those two cases, then you need to select the | application first, and buy a platform that can run it. This is precisely correct. I did not express it as well. (And it should be noted that there is software to read most proprietary formats that works quite well, but my experience is that you can't write it back out as well. Thus, .rtf, .ppt, .doc, and all those sorts of things can be imported into a FreeBSD system just great but you can't re-export them as readily.) | | http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message