Yeah, tell me about it. Unfortunately he has been with the company 24 years and grew up with the owner. Go figure.
The only way I can convince them is with TCO, of which this Certification plays a part. On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:58:01 -0500, Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 18, 2005, at 11:53 AM, Tyler Gee wrote: > > > Oh, don't get me wrong, I am definitely aware it is enterprise ready, > > I am just facing the uphill challenge of convincing my boss who was > > weaned on Windows. I think if I had a Cert he would be more convinced > > but he won't pay for me to get the Cert until he is more convinced. > > > > I have used a lot of information from different sites and pointed him > > toward netcraft and anything else I can find and that it what > > convinced him to start using Suse. In fact, since then I have moved > > two smaller boxes over to FreeBSD without problems, I am just trying > > to convince him to let us run our full webserver on a FreeBSD box. > > Since our LAN Administrator is only familiar with Windows my boss is > > worried that we won't be able to effectively administrate the box. So > > me, as Web Developer, am not allowed to administer a critical web > > server box because I don't have any certifications to do so (even > > though I do have the knowledge to do so). > > It sounds to me as if your boss is not qualified to manage technical > professionals. Have you asked him for his certificate? ;-) > > -- > Jason Dixon > DixonGroup Consulting > http://www.dixongroup.net > > _______________________________________________ BSDcert mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
