Technical Director writes: > "Okay Rob, you can have one FreeBSD box, on your desktop..."
The first time I encountered FreeBSD, I dismissed it because of the name. It sounded like yet another geek hobbyist project, like Linux, and that was something I didn't think should run in a critical production environment. Even today, although I know that FreeBSD is indeed suitable for heavy-duty production environments, it's hard to recommend it for corporate and mission-critical use because there is no support structure for it, and unless a site has qualified UNIX administrators and programmers on staff (some sites do), FreeBSD--or any open-source UNIX system without a formal support structure--is a risky proposition. Sure, it may well run for twenty years without a boot ... but what if it _does_ crash? Whom do you call? That's what IT managers (rightly) worry about. -- Anthony _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
