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Old 12th November 2008
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Originally Posted by ichbindev
Following up on anomie's point about servers in a standardized environment, when would you not use freebsd for server?
Speaking only for myself / my situation, the decision was made some time ago at a department level. I don't know what the exact reasons were for going with RHEL.

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Originally Posted by ichbindev
For example, database, file server, or even more "enterprise" applications.
Honestly, for any services I could run from the base system or from ports, my own preference would strongly be FreeBSD. This would include: a firewall device, a web server, a file server, etc.

For running proprietary apps - e.g. Oracle - I am actually more comfortable with RHEL because it is vendor-tested and validated. I am not going to go out on a limb to kludge something together (running under Linux emulation).
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