From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 15 12:19:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 829BD37B408 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:19:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rootman@xmission.com) Received: from [166.70.2.16] (helo=blackmirror.xmission.com) by mail.xmission.com with smtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 15Az7W-0006B6-00; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:19:03 -0600 From: rootman To: joel2a@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Justification for using FreeBSD Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:12:49 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <4.2.2.20010615011057.03149220@pop.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20010615011057.03149220@pop.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01061513183102.00258@blackmirror.xmission.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, you made some obvious but good points. > PS. My derogatory comment: Why is a manager who doesn't know that in charge > of making IT decisions?!! Probably because the manager that gave her the job, doesn't even know how to create a desktop icon and believes an IT manager doesn't have to have an IT/Technical back ground to successfully manage an IT department. On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, joel2a@yahoo.com wrote: > 1. > There's the netcraft..com surveys > http://www.netcraft.com/survey/ > which show's Apache is used by 62.55 percent of web servers. > while Microsoft-IIS is used by 20.64. > > 2. > FreeBSD is also good for a free unlimited user mail server with sendmail, > free POP3 and list server with majordomo. > Most NT mail servers are not free and NT does not have a POP3 server included. > This the major reason I got it for! > > 3. > Redundancy. > > 4. > Yahoo and Hotmail use it. > You could list the others. > > 5. > You can use less expensive PC's for future expansion and at no cost for > extra licenses for them > > > Joel > > PS. My derogatory comment: Why is a manager who doesn't know that in charge > of making IT decisions?!! > > > > At 05:19 PM 6/14/01 -0600, you wrote: > > >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 > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Joe Warner Daemon News Bringing BSD Together Daemon News E-Zine http://www.daemonnews.org Daily Daemon News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Print Magazine http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message