From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 3 14:47:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C47C37B41E for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 14:47:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id g33MlIm68989; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 00:47:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <00b201c1db61$825e66e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: References: <20020402113404.A52321@lpt.ens.fr><3CA9854E.A4D86CC4@mindspring.com><20020402123254.H49279@lpt.ens.fr><009301c1da83$9fa73170$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15530.6987.977637.574551@guru.mired.org><012601c1dadb$104d5100$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15531.2846.277278.29276@guru.mired.org><005e01c1db44$e10d2a40$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15531.27851.19169.720598@guru.mired.org><008d01c1db5d$e8704d80$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15531.33432.523352.997561@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 00:47:17 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike writes: > Got references to back that up? Nope. > That's the scame Terry outlined: pay high > school students $8/hour to answer phone calls > at $35/15 minutes or thereabouts, so that the > more bugs you have that can be found in the > database, the more money you make. Microsoft does not hire high-school students for technical support, as far as I know, not even for first-line support. > What he actually said was that under a test > load, Win NT crashed far to quickly to usefull, > whereas Win 2000 was rock solid. He was probably just trying to sell Windows 2000. Windows NT is extremely solid already. > If they're *your* applications ... They aren't. They are applications I've bought, for many times the cost of all my hardware. > If it's the list of applications you've > posted before, there is software available > - at no cost, mind you - that will handle > all the chorse they handle except reading > proprietary data formats. I have to be able to read the proprietary data formats; that is not an option. "Almost" isn't enough. > If you're stuck in a situation where proprietary > data formats means you have to use a desktop that > an objective evaluation shows is the least effecient > model in common - or even uncommon - use, > then you have my sympathy. I don't know of any such evaluation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message