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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!worldnet.att.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!uniol!news From: "Thomas Weihrich" <Thomas.Weihrich@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New BSDI Pricing Date: 22 Apr 1997 10:48:56 GMT Organization: C. v. Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg - Fachbereich Informatik Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5ji52o$mje@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> References: <E8ssJ8.Mqr@news.interactive.net> <Pine.LNX.3.96.970419143119.789C-100000@reflections.eng.mindspring.net> <5jhap8$4ac@news-central.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: eowyn.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6719 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39511 rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) writes: >Todd Graham Lewis (tlewis@mindspring.com) wrote: >: The phrases "rock" and "hard place" come to mind. If they drop their >: prices too low, the moronic übercorporate types will assume "$1k per >: license? It must be crappy". If they raise them too high, clueful types >: will ask "Is BSDI really worth $3k/per box more than FreeBSD or Linux?" >: and usually answer "no". Do you really need source with every of your boxes ? Do you always have an unlimited quantity of users swamping your system ? Get what you need - not what you would like to have. >Worse than that, the beancounters may insist on Windows NT as a webserver. >-- It's all a matter of stability and availability. My NT machine crashed 8 times during installation and then every 5 minutes. It's been running BSD/OS for 15 months now without a single hardware related crash (2.1 with no crash at all) Thomas Weihrich -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Weihrich | NIC-Handle TW166 Thomas.Weihrich@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE | #include <std_disclaimer.h> Thomas.Weihrich@WWWA.ORG | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------