Date: 31 Mar 2004 19:35:50 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> To: Matt Olander <matt@offmyserver.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Success Stories Message-ID: <1080779750.3107.13.camel@chaucer> In-Reply-To: <20040331150415.A26746@knight.ixsystems.net> References: <20040331174544.B577@dru.domain.org> <20040331150415.A26746@knight.ixsystems.net>
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On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 18:04, Matt Olander wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 05:50:32PM -0500, Dru wrote: > > O'Reilly is in the process of creating a "BSD Success Stories" booklet to > > be given away at trade shows, conferences, etc. For those of you who are > > familiar with the "Perl Success Stories", it will be following a similar > > format. You can get an idea of the types of stories at: > > > > http://perl.oreilly.com/news/success_stories.html > > > > If anyone is interested in contributing a success story, please contact > > chromatic@oreilly.com. If we can get five or six fairly quickly, there's a > > good chance the booklets will be ready for BSDCan (www.bsdcan.org) :-) > > great! thanks Dru. we'll be sure to submit our recent story of > converting www.hostdepartment.com over to FreeBSD. previously, the company > was using RedHat and faced an additional 21,000 dollar cost to upgrade > to the advanced server edition. that, plus the ongoing annual support > costs can get a bit expensive. > > now, they have 30 new systems running FreeBSD that are outperforming > their previous Linux machines, and, with a bit of training, are now > lower maintenence than ever before ;-) > > it should also boost FreeBSD on the netcraft lists too since this customer hosts so > many (100k plus?) websites. > > cheers, > -matt > I am really glad they switched to FreeBSD, and I am sure it will turn out well for them - but I wonder why they didn't just stop buying support from Red Hat, and switching to Fedora, or one of the other Linux distributions that can be run without paying a support fee? Do they have a quote on how much better the performance is?
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