Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:23:53 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>, Glenn Johnson <gljohns@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help in convincing management not to supplant Unix with NT Message-ID: <19980810082353.I11095@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.02.9808101006250.9878-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>; from Jonathan Chen on Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 10:17:23AM %2B1200 References: <199808090309.WAA00774@gforce.bellsouth.net> <Pine.SGI.4.02.9808101006250.9878-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
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On Monday, 10 August 1998 at 10:17:23 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > 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? Now *that*'s an interesting approach. Get them to put their money where their mouth is: "If you install NT, we want a formal overtime policy". Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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