Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 07:35:53 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jcwells@u.washington.edu, scrappy@hub.org, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Subject: Re: From Slashdot... Message-ID: <XFMail.990201073553.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <80502.917844759@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On 01-Feb-99 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Now that Microsoft is pushing NT hard for the server market, where >> will UNIX go next, when they give that up? > > I don't have any intention of giving that market up. NT is something > that it's possible to fight on the server, as hard as that might be, > whereas it's almost impossible to fight on the desktop. As I said, > the apps just aren't there on the desktop. On the server, we have > Apache, nntp, sendmail and numerous other free utilities to round out > a pretty reasonable looking functionality picture. For what it's worth: the company I work for has about 2 dozen NT servers (if not less), 450 NetWare 4.11 server, a hand full of NetWare 3.12, 2 megabeautiful AIX boxen, a number of lesser AIX boxen, and the firewalls/nameservers and our desktop machines to administet them are FreeBSD. We have seen time and again that NT doesn't scale. I also know of people who have embraced NT to come back to the open arms of Unix. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven It's a Dance of Energy, asmodai(at)wxs.nl when the Mind goes Binary... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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