From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Apr 26 7: 6: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from pcayk.ukc.ac.uk (pcayk.ukc.ac.uk [129.12.41.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA8A0151A9 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 07:05:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dlombardo@excite.com) Received: from excite.com (xtsw12c.ukc.ac.uk [129.12.41.85]) by pcayk.ukc.ac.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA89038 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:08:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dlombardo@excite.com) Message-ID: <372473C6.DA4EA120@excite.com> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:10:14 +0100 From: Dean Lombardo Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Encanto Networks chooses FreeBSD over Linux References: <01e701be8f7f$3ad97160$0d787880@apex.tapang> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just found the URL: http://www.investors.com/web_edition/today/viewcomptech.html It asks for a user name and password, but guest/guest seems to work... :-) Dean "Carlos C. Tapang" wrote: > Subject: Encanto Networks chooses FreeBSD over Linux > Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 17:53:41 -0700 > From: "Carlos C. Tapang" > To: , > > Just came across an interesting article in Investor's Business Daily (April > 26th issue) in the Computers and Technology section. The title is "Windows > Foes Pose A Threat: Ex-Novell CEO". In it Bob Frankenberg cites the reason > why his company chose FreeBSD over Linux: they did a very careful evaluation > and "found that there was a 2-1 or 3-1 improvement over Linux". "... A lot > of work had been done to maximize transaction-processing performance." But > "Linux, on the other hand, performs better for individual use" because of > "better network performance". > > Hmm, are we finally getting good press coverage? I am sure this did not > happen by accident. There must be an effort going on to get this kind of > press coverage. Good job, guys. > > Carlos C. Tapang > http://www.genericwindows.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message