Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 19:48:08 -0400 From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jonathan.slivko@lotuscom.net> To: "rootman" <rootman@xmission.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Justification for using FreeBSD Message-ID: <003301c0f52c$76f52f80$9865fea9@equinox> References: <01061417404103.00261@blackmirror.xmission.com>
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Well,
NT (4 and 2000) both require a huge proccessing power investment with alot
of RAM and alot of other hardware thrown into it. However, on the other
hand, FreeBSD will run perfectly (or at least in working order) on 8MB of
RAM. If you wanted to point out that FreeBSD is *free* and that NT needs a
license for each copy that your running, including upgrades, etc. Also, NT
isn't built as rock solid as everyone thinks, it *can* be demolished
totally.
-- Jonathan
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Jonathan M. Slivko, Technical Support Associate
jonathan.slivko@lotuscom.net
http://www.blacklotus.net
Black Lotus Communications Corporation
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----- Original Message -----
From: "rootman" <rootman@xmission.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 7:19 PM
Subject: Justification for using FreeBSD
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if this is the correct list to post to for this.
>
> Please let me know if -chat, -advocacy or -newbies would be better
choices.
>
> I am a Technical Analyst for a software company of approximately 300
employees.
>
> About five months ago, news came from upper management that they wanted us
to
> have an intranet in place at our office. I had been experimenting with
FreeBSD
> 3.4 at the time and already had it running Apache and had a bunch of
static
> pages in place.
>
> Our Network Administrator jumped on the wagon and got MS IIS running on
one
> of his NT 4.0 servers.
>
> Now, we have a fairly large amount of content, split between his web
server and
> my Apache server on FreeBSD.
>
> The manager I had when I set up my FreeBSD box thought that what I had
done was
> great and was impressed with FreeBSD/Apache. I recently got a new manager
who
> doesn't know the BSD's from Open Source and wants me to justify why we
need to
> have two web servers instead of one and why we need FreeBSD/Apache.
>
> Basically, she wants to know how FreeBSD/Apache compares to NT 4.0/MS IIS.
>
> I really don't want to try to fight the battle of getting all of our
intranet
> content moved to FreeBSD/Apache. This would also be a lot of work, since
a
> lot of content is already in place on MS IIS.
>
> So, she also wants to know what the advantages/disadvantages would be of
having
> two web servers instead of one.
>
> I've already obtained some information from the FAQ at Apache.org and from
> FreeBSD.org but I was wondering if anyone could provide any additional
> examples, info or web sites I could check out.
>
> I need to be able to justify FreeBSD/Apache and the use of two web servers
> or I'm afraid it will be "Bye Bye" for FreeBSD where I work.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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