From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat May 23 13:21:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26846 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 23 May 1998 13:21:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mooseriver.com (dynamic11.pm06.sf3d.best.com [209.24.235.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26839 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 13:21:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch@mooseriver.com) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by mooseriver.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id NAA23665; Sat, 23 May 1998 13:21:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19980523132128.D22591@mooseriver.com> Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 13:21:29 -0700 From: Josef Grosch To: Nicole , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD A Solution For Business Reply-To: jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com References: <8677.895915412@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Nicole on Sat, May 23, 1998 at 11:08:27AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 11:08:27AM -0700, Nicole wrote: > > On 23-May-98 Jordan K. Hubbard wisely wrote: >>> I must humbly disagree. FreeBSD is not an alternative desktop system >>> for a business environment. No Windozes application user is going to >>> give up Word > >I Agree > > >Personally I don't want us to go the way of NT in trying to be an >everything system. Remember, M$ goals are to get rid of Win95 after this >new release and merge everything together into one OS. Then just have M$ >workstation and M$ Server. >As we have been shown, there is really very little difference between the >two. > Yes, this is microsoft's stated policy. Sorta like England's policy of 2 centurys ago, "To make the world England" with the same predictable results. >I would rather have FreeBSD focus on being a Killer Server that can also >be used as a desktop. Lets face it, no one but those who love UNIX and >people who have serious tasks to accomplish would use a UNIX OS as their >desktop. > YES!! we should focus on making FreeBSD _THE_ server OS of choice on a selected range of hardware. We already are making very good progress in this area. Pushing FreeBSD as the choice OS for a low-end workstation is also an area where can get a lot of traction. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.7 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message