At 10:48 -0500 12/9/97, ekleinfe @
putter .
vanguard .
com wrote:
>"Craig I. Hagan" <hagan @
cih .
com> wrote:
>> Just picking three capriciously, BSDI, FreeBSD, and linux, i'd hazard that
>> they could do a damn competetive job with solaris x86 in terms of
>> performance/response time.[1]
>
[deletia...]
>When it comes down to it, the only thing your manager and upper management
>want is the ability to make that phone call and have someone out within a
>few hours to make the necessary fixes. And when you, as the designer, draw
>up the proposal, you can, in most cases, make a good bet that the
>people seeing the proposal would rather see 'Sun', or *maybe* 'BSDI' when it
>comes to UNIX. It's unfortunate, but it tends to be that way in medium to
>large corporations.
Anyone tried Caldera on for size? Shoot there are orgs out there that will
sell you Linux (specifcally RedHat) support for a tidy sum. Ok, maybe Linux
can't rival Sun for vendor "clout" or name recognition...
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