Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 14:52:25 -0700 (PDT) From: "Mark L. Holloway" <mlholloway@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD in the .COM World Message-ID: <19991017215225.17239.rocketmail@web504.yahoomail.com>
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I just got back from Santa Cruz, California, where I was in training for the Cisco PIX Firewall. Some of the people in class work for consulting companies that service many .COM companies.. According to one of the guys I talked to alot, he said most companies that get large funding spend tons of money on commercial HTTPd server for the front end (Microsoft, Sun) and spend most of their money on a cluster of Sun Enterprise servers for the back end where the database lives. He said companies that don't get large funding typically deploy Red Hat Linux on the front end on x86 and have 2 or 3 Sun Enterprise servers on the back end. I asked about *BSD and said there are some, but not a lot. However, most of the people who work for Ignite Technologies (the firm he works for) are addicted to *BSD. Their typical Firewall deployment is the Nokia Firewall running FreeBSD and Checkpoint. My point is that I love FreeBSD. I have been running FreeBSD for almost 2 years and can't imagine life without it. Yes, I also have a Windows PC (especially for things like Sniffer Pro) but when it comes to .COM-ing the world FreeBSD is a leader..especially with companies like MS Hotmail, Link Exchange, MP3.com, etc..FreeBSD seems to exit here, there, and everywhere even when other commercial OSs also have a presence. Does anyone have any thoughts or input to this? I'm in Las Vegas so there are hardly any .COM companies, although some of the larger ISPs have FreeBSD or BSDI mixed into their Sun/SGI networks. As a Network Administrator for the biggest WAN company in Las Vegas, I have to say that FreeBSD may not be as prolific as Solaris, but it is strong, robust, and the .COM people I know have great respect for FreeBSD. I'm studying for my Cisco CCIE and my wife and I have plans to move to Colorado (Denver/Boulder/Colorado Springs area) and I'm sure I'll end up working for some type of .COM firm or organization. The chance of them using FreeBSD are slimmer than finding an organization using Linux, but that's ok. My roots are in Network Administration - building fault tolerant networks with high security. FreeBSD works well. I also have BSDI installed and it's awesome too. Give me a *BSD box, let me use Blackbox for the GUI when I need multiple xterm windows, and I'm good to go! Mark __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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