People will wonder why this is great. Darwin is not FreeBSD... there are too many things going on with the Mach Kernel. Yes, Fink or DarwinPorts solves some problems but still. I'm a happy fella.
I will put my 2 cents in. I started a net-based company and came from a Mac background 7 years ago. I really only had two choice Unix/Linux or MS, cause Macs sucked with server stuff until OS X.
The MS option was costly because of the OS, hidden server fees and additional little things that MS doesn't tell you about. I didn't know anything about UNIX/LINX and had Apache,q-mail and other web services up and running in six weeks. I had NO idea of command lines coming from a mac system and got it working.
I have figured out more about unix/linux in the following years. If your IT staff "WANTS" to learn they could understand the basics within a month and hire one or two LINUX consultants to teach the current staff about it and to trouble shoot... in case!
In the long run you will save money and apps are being developed to make LINUX/UNIX easier and a desktop replacement for Windows.
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People will wonder why this is great. Darwin is not FreeBSD... there are too many things going on with the Mach Kernel. Yes, Fink or DarwinPorts solves some problems but still. I'm a happy fella.
I will put my 2 cents in. I started a net-based company and came from a Mac background 7 years ago. I really only had two choice Unix/Linux or MS, cause Macs sucked with server stuff until OS X. The MS option was costly because of the OS, hidden server fees and additional little things that MS doesn't tell you about. I didn't know anything about UNIX/LINX and had Apache,q-mail and other web services up and running in six weeks. I had NO idea of command lines coming from a mac system and got it working.
I have figured out more about unix/linux in the following years. If your IT staff "WANTS" to learn they could understand the basics within a month and hire one or two LINUX consultants to teach the current staff about it and to trouble shoot... in case!
In the long run you will save money and apps are being developed to make LINUX/UNIX easier and a desktop replacement for Windows.