Posted by
Hemos
on from the selling-it-to-the-world dept.
jogega writes "There is an article at OnLamp that gives some advice on how to sell BSD solutions commercially. It talks about the best way to present your solution, get the job done, and most important show that BSD is a very strong alternative in the market."
walk the walk...
by
JDizzy
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I agree with the author.... but I would like to share some of the experiences I have on this subject.
First off, I'm a junior level unix admin... The older more polished guys I work with tend to keep me at bay since I'm young. Well, to make this story short, I built-out a few FreeBSd servers to backup the main email servers, webservers, and DNS cache.
In effect I choose to install BSD in only the places that I can leverage all the positve things, and none of the negative itmes. For instance, since our email servers would go down all the time, I added my backup mail server to the mix, and it took over the deliver of email before anybody knew the main server was down.
Since BSD cost nothing except the hardware it is install on, I further compounded the issue with my boss. He loves to play mind games with my budget. When I told him I was using a free Operating system he almost got mad since he didn't have the cost leverage with me. My boss really loves to play mind games, did I mention that? Anyways... I repeted the the above several times, but with different various services, and each time it was a FreeBSD to the rescue situation.....
I can name several situations tha tI had a cheap bsd box installed on sub 1000K hardware, dong the job of a failled enterprise server that cost serveral orders of magniture more cash.
This is the way Open source will penetrate the datacenter... it has to prove itself..
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I agree with the author.... but I would like to share some of the experiences I have on this subject.
First off, I'm a junior level unix admin... The older more polished guys I work with tend to keep me at bay since I'm young. Well, to make this story short, I built-out a few FreeBSd servers to backup the main email servers, webservers, and DNS cache.
In effect I choose to install BSD in only the places that I can leverage all the positve things, and none of the negative itmes. For instance, since our email servers would go down all the time, I added my backup mail server to the mix, and it took over the deliver of email before anybody knew the main server was down.
Since BSD cost nothing except the hardware it is install on, I further compounded the issue with my boss. He loves to play mind games with my budget. When I told him I was using a free Operating system he almost got mad since he didn't have the cost leverage with me. My boss really loves to play mind games, did I mention that? Anyways... I repeted the the above several times, but with different various services, and each time it was a FreeBSD to the rescue situation.....
I can name several situations tha tI had a cheap bsd box installed on sub 1000K hardware, dong the job of a failled enterprise server that cost serveral orders of magniture more cash.
This is the way Open source will penetrate the datacenter... it has to prove itself..
It isn't a lie if you belive it.