On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Jason Dixon wrote:
On Mar 18, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Tyler Gee wrote:
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).[ snip ]
I have a large client in Toronto; one of the largest online credit card handlers in CA. They use OpenBSD almost exclusively now in place of Windows and Linux. This is for both load-balanced failover firewalls and for high-availability e-commerce servers. Does that not qualify as "enterprise ready"?
Tyler, Jason and rest of list, I'm actively seeking companies to approach
for white papers and ideas for getting BSD into non-technical magazines (or
technical magazines that rarely cover BSD). I'm not talking technical how-tos,
but more along the lines of TOC and glossy marketing thingies. Contact me
directly if you are interested in assisting with this. Even if you can't think of a company per se but you have the ability to express yourself in a way that appeals to those who hold the purse strings, drop me a line.
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