Comments on: Cost Optimization Through Open Source Software http://blog.pcbsd.org/2011/01/cost-optimization-through-open-source-software/ Discover the Desktop Sun, 19 May 2013 17:16:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: (Free)BSD miscelaneous links and news (week 1) | FreeBSD News http://blog.pcbsd.org/2011/01/cost-optimization-through-open-source-software/#comment-504 (Free)BSD miscelaneous links and news (week 1) | FreeBSD News Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:48:32 +0000 http://blog.pcbsd.org/?p=365#comment-504 [...] The lead article in this month’s edition of the Open Source Business Resource was contributed by iXsystems. It describes some of the business reasons behind the company’s choice to use only FreeBSD and PC-BSD systems in its own infrastructure and provides a cost/savings comparison for both software and maintenance costs. It also contains some good references and percentages if you’re looking for something to show your manager (via) [...]

]]> By: Paul Tabo http://blog.pcbsd.org/2011/01/cost-optimization-through-open-source-software/#comment-496 Paul Tabo Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:39:29 +0000 http://blog.pcbsd.org/?p=365#comment-496 If Opera is not open source then it is more informative to the community if you keep Opera in the list but as (closed source) or (restrictive source).

]]> By: Tweets that mention Cost Optimization Through Open Source Software | Official PC-BSD Blog -- Topsy.com http://blog.pcbsd.org/2011/01/cost-optimization-through-open-source-software/#comment-487 Tweets that mention Cost Optimization Through Open Source Software | Official PC-BSD Blog -- Topsy.com Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:04:13 +0000 http://blog.pcbsd.org/?p=365#comment-487 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Dru Lavigne. Dru Lavigne said: Cost Optimization Through Open Source Software: article explaining why one company uses #FreeBSD and #PC-BSD exclusively http://ht.ly/3xmfS [...]

]]> By: dru http://blog.pcbsd.org/2011/01/cost-optimization-through-open-source-software/#comment-486 dru Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:57:36 +0000 http://blog.pcbsd.org/?p=365#comment-486 Good catch! We’ll be removing the reference to Opera.

]]> By: Michael http://blog.pcbsd.org/2011/01/cost-optimization-through-open-source-software/#comment-485 Michael Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:51:23 +0000 http://blog.pcbsd.org/?p=365#comment-485 “Open source web browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox and Opera, often outperform their proprietary counterparts in speed and performance benchmarks. Google’s Chrome browser is based on the open source Chromium project. ”

I did not know Opera opened its source.

Also Zimbra doesn’t work very well with FreeBSD last time I researched.

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