[BSDcert] BSDCert, Advocacy, Cost

[Jason Dixon]

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"?

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Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net