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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Anthony
> Atkielski
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 3:44 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?
>
>
> Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
>
> > Do you always buy new cars?  New homes?
>
> Yes.  And new PCs.
>
> > If you were tasked with going out and buying Windows server hardware
> > and you had a maximum of $200 to spend, you would be pretty stupid to
> > go down to Fry's and get one of their $199 on-sale computers when you
> > could go spend the $200 on a used HP server that cost $9000 when it
> > was new and has a full set of SCSI disks in it and probably a
> > tapedrive. Sure the HP server is slow - but in that environment the
> > reliability is more important than the speed.
>
> But at least I could be reasonably sure that Windows would be able to
> use the machine.  I can't be that confident with other operating
> systems.
>

You can't be that confident that the other operating systems will work
on the new hardware, either.

Ted