Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 00:22:41 -0400 From: marrandy@tampabay.rr.com To: Glenn Johnson <gljohns@bellsouth.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help in convincing management not to supplant Unix with NT Message-ID: <35CD2411.309ED207@tampabay.rr.com> References: <199808090309.WAA00774@gforce.bellsouth.net>
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Try this. http://www.kirch.net/unix-nt.html Regards...Martin ------------------ Glenn Johnson wrote: > > Greetings, > > At my place of employment, the management team, who are basically computer > illiterate, have decided that there should be no Unix machines providing > network or Internet services, only NT machines. I am trying to convince them > that this would be a mistake. This situation is complicated by the fact that > the Network Administrator does not know anything about Unix and has shown > an unwillingness to learn. Over the last 4 months, the AIX machine that the > previous Network Administrator setup has been running happily without any > intervention, while the NT servers have crashed at least twice a month. I > personally have six FreeBSD machines (workstation usage) that have been running > without any problems; but this does not seem to be enough evidence. > > I, along with a couple of other people are trying to present evidence to keep > Unix systems running at our site. I searched the FreeBSD archives and found the > reference to the article by John Kirsch about Unix vs. NT and have submitted > that to management. I am curious if anybody else has had to go through this > type of nonsense and could provide any pointers. I am particularly interested > in Unix vs. NT for mail service. > > All pointers and moral support are greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > -- > Glenn Johnson > gljohns@bellsouth.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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