Hi, On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 20:37:25 -0400 Allen <slackwarew...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > > You could also try contacting iX directly. If your company likes > > proprietary solutions, then iX can sell you something that looks to > > management like a proprietary system, even if it doesn't to the > > people actually using it... > > Hahaha! I'm sorry to waste peoples tome with basically a giggle, but > when I read that line, I just instantly had a mental image of the > usual pointy haired moron managers all sitting around a boardroom > table saying to one person that FreeBSD being free must have no real > value, and then 5 minutes later someone showing then the same OS but > with a price tag from a company and then them all shaking their heads > yes in agreement because the sticker for the price tag is shiny and > looks good. Lol, sorry about the basically useless reply but it > brightened my day and maybe by pointing it out, it may brighten > someone elses day as well. a long time ago, I did some work for a e-commerce site. Huge machines with the need for a huge firewall. So, the people purchased a huge firewall which was practically a FreeBSD machine based on standard hardware. The client was happy to pay roughly ten times the price of the plain hardware. Erich _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
