good things to say

[jsha]

my dear open sourcerers,

i am writing this letter to ask for your assistance in advocating
open source and in particular freebsd for the enterprise.

today i've assembled some information relating to the ever-increasing
benefits of our community, and i was hoping for input from you all
juniors and seniors out there -- again i have a case here where some
microsoft fans is in need of enlightenment -- and along with advanced
visualization (lightwave + flash) i tend to make _the_ open source
advocation which i'll distribute freely to anyone who is or ever will
be in the same situation as me.

please note, i tried making this document as simple as possible.

thank you.


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	| WHERE WE ARE

	Disadvantages:

	- Having a slow network
	- Using Microsoft Windows
	- Paying for Closed Source software
	- Viruses/worms/trojans

	Advantages:

	- Having a number of computers
	- Having access to the Internet
	- Being open to new ideas

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	| FREEBSD

	Disadvantages:

	- Might reduce your staff

	Advantages:

	- Free to anyone
	- Created the Internet
	- Worldwide development
	- Reliable and secure
	- Sophisticated

	* Contains over 9000 free softwares.

	* Easily install any of the services that is critical to
	  the Internet: Apache (websites), MySQL (databases), Postfix
          (e-mail), OpenSSL (encryption)

	* Comes with powerful and free ERP/CRM solutions, office and
	  multimedia tools.

	* Because of it's unique architecture, no virus has ever
	  successfully penetrated its shields.

	* Easily emulate, or "impersonate" Windows, so software
	  native to Windows can run in a virtual environment.

	* Designed and implemented with remote management in mind.

	* Its open source ensures that these development efforts will
	  be continued well into the future.

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	| COMPARISON

	Reliability, FreeBSD:
	- Extremely robust
	- Servers remain active for years
	- Filesystem optimized for high performance
	- Excellent memory management

	Reliability, Windows:
	- The infamous "Blue Screen"
	- Uses a lot of system resources
	- Servers remain active only for a few months
	- Filesystem gets fragmented
	- Memory gets corrupt

	Performance, FreeBSD:
	- Choice for high performance network applications
	- Outperforms ANY operating system on equivalent hardware
	- The largest server on the Internet runs FreeBSD,
	  including Yahoo, Qwest and even Hotmail!

	Performance, Windows:
	- Adequate for routine desktop apps
	- But, it is unable to handle heavy network loads.

	Security, FreeBSD:
	- Subject to massive auditing
	- Completely deny access with kernel security levels
	- Packet filtering firewall system
	- Network intrusion detection tools
	- Extensive other built-in security modules
	- Rarely reported on CERT

	Security, Windows:
	- No guarantee
	- Being closed source, there is no way to fix or diagnose
	  any of the security compromises regularly published
	  about Microsoft systems

	Compatibility, FreeBSD:
	- Run both BSD and Linux binaries
	- Supports network connection with Windows machines
	- Emulates virtual Windows environments or Windows binaries

	Compatibility, Windows:
	- Excellent hardware support

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	| WHERE WE WANT TO BE

	In a position where information is managed and organized
	into powerful databases. Open Source provides the database
	MySQL -- a free alternative with equal performance to
	the Windows database Oracle, whose drawback is its high
	price.

	Based on the right database you need the right ERP+CRM
	solution. You'd pretty much want to choose Compiere, to
	fully integrate the "front office" with the "back office".
	Compiere all areas of customer relationship management
	and enterprise resource management.

	For anything else, members of the Terrabionic consortium
	will apply their advanced programming skills (C/C++, Perl
	and Python) to make our request come true.

	General management:
	   Customers		> Database
	   Affiliates		> Database
	   Tickets		> Database
	   Schedules		> Database
	   Website		> Database
	   Forum		> Database

	ERP/CRM management:
	   Order process	> Database
	   Point of sales	> Database
	   Accounting		> Database
	   Inventory		> Database
	   Distribution		> Database

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--
j.