Chris escreveu: > I been trying (rather unsuccessfully) to convince various clients and > employers to adopt OpenBSD. Most people, I find, are resistent to > change and would not use anything they are not familiar with. Others > would say that if I leave the job, it would be hard to find people who > can use (or even heard of) OpenBSD and in some places Management never > heard of OpenBSD and have very little clue as to how good or bad it is > compared to Linux/ Solaris and Windows thus they will just knock off > the proposal in 2 seconds. > > Is there any way I could convince these people to make the move to > OpenBSD? Suggestions, tips and tricks along with real life examples > would be much appreciated. Thanks. > > The enterprise i work on always made their firewall/proxy solutions using linux. The responsible was having trouble using the iproute2 voodoo to make 2 isp links to work. I then suggested using openbsd. I didn't had at the time knowledge to do that, but suggested it anyway, cause pf looked to me much simpler than iptables. When i learned that a single route-to statement would throw all the ip route + MARK shit on linux, i convinced the manager to use it on our clients. Nowadays we have lots of carp firewalls, and some clients with 2 or 3 isp's. Working with ifstated and a bunch of scripts to check link availability. This kind of thing is one way to convince. The other would be the EXPERT thing mentioned before. Today, i convince much more being an EXPERT than telling all the great things open is capable of.
My regards, -- Giancarlo Razzolini Linux User 172199 Red Hat Certified Engineer no:804006389722501 Moleque Sem Conteudo Numero #002 Slackware Current OpenBSD Stable Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Snike Tecnologia em Informatica 4386 2A6F FFD4 4D5F 5842 6EA0 7ABE BBAB 9C0E 6B85 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
