[BSDcert] BSDCert, Advocacy, Cost

[Jason Dixon]

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?  ;-)

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Jason Dixon
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