From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Aug 9 15:18:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29955 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 15:18:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29949 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 15:18:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA24105; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:17:57 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:17:23 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Glenn Johnson cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help in convincing management not to supplant Unix with NT In-Reply-To: <199808090309.WAA00774@gforce.bellsouth.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Glenn Johnson wrote: > Over the last 4 months, the AIX machine that the > previous Network Administrator setup has been running happily without any > intervention, while the NT servers have crashed at least twice a month. I > personally have six FreeBSD machines (workstation usage) that have been running > without any problems; but this does not seem to be enough evidence. > IMHO, this is where you should attack the situation. How valuable is uptime to your management? What happens if it crashes just as a long weekend starts? How generous can they afford to be with overtime pay? -- Jonathan Chen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "We laugh in the face of danger, we drop icecubes down the vest of fear" - Edmond Blackadder III To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message