* Tyler Gee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-18 11:04]: > Hi all, > > Just wanted to chime in on some feelings I have that I have not seen > addressed. > > I work for a medium sized company (125 employees) and have been slowly > trying to convert my supervisor over to running some BSD-based boxes, > mostly for a simple ftp machine, the company intranet, etc. He has > all the desire to go BSD (sick of buying a Windows license for a > Pentium II that moves files three times a day) but I have had a hard > time steering him to BSD. He started looking into Suse but mostly > because it is mentioned in the magazines he reads (and we are in Utah, > so maybe there is some Novell pride or something). My problem is that > he doesn't believe BSD is an "enterprise ready platform" (his quote, > not mine). However, here is my dilemma: > > -If I had a BSD Certification he would be more likely to believe BSD > is "enterprise ready." > -He won't pay for me to get a BSD Certification until it is "enterprise > ready." > > Kind of a Catch-22.
Well, the software is certainly enterprise ready. It hosts some of the busiest sites on the net. Have him check these Netcraft surveys: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/performance.html http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html > > So, until there was some major advocacy for the Certification, I think > people are going to have a hard time convincing their employers to pay > for it unless it happened to be relatively cheap. I am not trying to > drive the cost down before the product is released, but I am concerned > about what a BSD Certification will mean to my PHB [1] > > Thoughts on cost? > Thoughts on how to advocate the Certification within Enterprise circles? Cost is still an unknown. As for advocacy, there are many large shops running BSD servers. That's one of the reasons we are starting this certification. Best Regards, Jim B. _______________________________________________ BSDcert mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
