Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 09:59:24 -0800 From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CNET announces InterJet... Message-ID: <199703081759.JAA16902@kithrup.com> In-Reply-To: <199703080605.XAA09748.kithrup.freebsd.chat@obie.softweyr.ml.org> References: <199703040723.XAA00817@hamby1>
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In article <199703080605.XAA09748.kithrup.freebsd.chat@obie.softweyr.ml.org> you write: >How 'bout the fact that it costs $2000, and you can do the same yourself >with a $500 machine and FreeBSD? It would cost a bit more than $500 to have the hardware equivalence that the InterJet has, and you still wouldn't end up with the convenience and packaging. Also, you then wouldn't have the software, which, of course, is the VA part of the box. Yes, you could get FreeBSD, but there's more to the IJ than just the OS. The biggest part, I think, is the administrative interface (http based), and the combined all-in-one package. (That it comes largely preconfigured from your ISP is irrelevent, as you could do that today anyway, if your ISP were willing to do it.) My FreeBSD box takes some minimal manual administering. The InterJet doesn't. (Okay, I'm a bit biased -- I just spent a couple of hours with Whistle people yesterday. But I do think it's a neat product. Not one I would want to pay $2k for, but I do think it has its niche.)
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