[Fwd: Re: [nycbug-talk] FreeBSD Testimonials and Support]

[Darryl Wisneski - ski]

steve Rieger wrote:
> the company i work for, uses fbsd for to host our web sites, for mysql 
> clusters, for ldap, and mail
> 
> last month we got over 2 million hits on our web server, and the damn 
> thing never complained. the last time we rebooted was about 2 years ago. 
> feel free to call me if you need more info
> 

Its funny, the sysadmin has pride in high uptimes as testimony to wise
systems adminstration, and running current, stable & bugfree code.  This
sense of pride is at odds with the developer of that same code.  The
developer has pride in a low uptime as it usually means they are running
current, stable, & bugfree code.

At my work, we have a regularly heavily beaten FBSD 4.1 box with uptime 
3.5 years.  We don't do much development it seems...


> 
> 
> On Apr 12, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Gordon Smith wrote:
> 
>> As a part of a proposal, I need to recommend an operating system to be 
>> used to run the server software for a highly available web 
>> application.  I'd like propose FreeBSD; however, I need to educate 
>> the management team receiving the proposal so that they will feel more 
>> comfortable selecting FreeBSD.  I'd appreciate any information you 
>> might provide about FreeBSD users, significant FreeBSD-based apps, and 
>> FreeBSD support vendors that you might recommend as experienced and 
>> reliable.  
>>  
>> The CEO would also like to be able to address the topic of SCO's 
>> litigation should it arise in customer conversations - that is, why 
>> FreeBSD is immune to, not demonstrably related to, or indemnified from 
>> SCO's legal approach.  If a good case can be made here, it would be a 
>> "good marketing bullet" for FreeBSD.
>>  
>> In the absence of such information, I'll need to propose the use of a 
>> prominent Linux product (such as Red Hat or SUSE) *instead* of FreeBSD.  
>>  
>> Thanks in advance for your help!
>>  
>>
>> Gordon Smith
>>
>>  
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