On 8/27/07, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Travers Buda wrote: > > > *snip* > > > > Just tell him that OpenBSD in the stead of HP-UX will be cheaper, faster to > > setup, and easier to maintain (because of your experience with Open.) Both > > OpenBSD and HP-UX can do LDAP, yes, but it's yourself that makes the > > difference here. > > > > Oh, and you have much more freedom in picking out your hardware (back to > > the cheap tangent.) > > > > -- > > Travers Buda > > It would be wonderful convince my boss with that argument....but the > next question he will ask is: "What if....you die tomorrow?? Who can > maintain the system??...
Easy. Let him know that any person who has a grasp of the written language can easily pick a system up and administer it by reading the available documentation. I'm not kidding - this is an easy win. Docs are a strong point and an unappreciated one. How hard is it to find good for commercial Unix variants? It works out for me that even if you find the docs, it's incredibly hard to find the specifics you're looking for in all the fluff. Between the excellent manual pages and online docs (e.g. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/), coupled with the amassed years of other users' experience and developer input found in the misc@ archives, it is not difficult for anyone with some Unix familiarity to pick OpenBSD up and run with it. DS
