From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jan 29 14:36:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from canonware.com (canonware.com [207.20.242.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E492514DF7 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 14:36:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jasone@canonware.com) Received: (qmail 91874 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Jan 2000 22:33:15 -0000 Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 14:33:15 -0800 From: Jason Evans To: John Purser Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: @home.com's e-mail problems Message-ID: <20000129143315.C73462@sturm.canonware.com> References: <000301bf6a95$1b984aa0$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <000301bf6a95$1b984aa0$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com>; from johnmpurser@home.com on Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 12:12:02PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 12:12:02PM -0800, John Purser wrote: > I sent an e-mail expressing my frustration and pointed out that even MS > doesn't use NT for heavy duty e-mail service. I suggested they look into > FreeBSD as a way of upgrading their technology and reliability. > > If they receive this suggestion from enough people they might start > listening. Especially now. Wednesday when I called in the second tier > support person I spoke to told me that the @home e-mail was down for the > entire US and they didn't know why! If they received multiple e-mails > suggesting FreeBSD as an alternative with helpful contacts at Yahoo, Walnut > Creek, or HotMail then we might get another large commercial user to join > the ranks! I worked at Critical Path (CP), an email outsourcer, for over a year. During that year, there were a quite a number of service outages. CP runs its services on a combination of Solaris and FreeBSD boxes. That CP doesn't use NT is a definite plus, but it couldn't begin to make up for the real problem: business goals do not emphasize reliability. If reliability were a goal, I expect CP could do about as well using NT as FreeBSD (though not for the same cost). @home may be different, but I doubt it. FreeBSD isn't a magical solution to all the world's evils; it's just an (IMO very good) operating system. Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message