Re: [squid-users] what's better than msproxy 2: Does someone wants to laugh ?

I have probably been misunderstood.

I am a user of squid since some years now and don't want to change. I have
also
tried to influence/convince our decision makers to use what I call ALGOS
(apache
linux and other gnu stuff). But this ones or more exactly the previous
decision
makers didn't want to have any linux box running anywhere in the company;
they
are probably anti free/inexpensive software. I have to try to convince the
new
decision makers to use algos but I am in short of arguments (or more
exactly new
arguments).

Now, the technical decision influencers doesn't even want to allow me to
make
demonstrations of the power and flexibility of squid and are evaluating new
cache/proxy software they didn't give me the names of. All what I could
have as
information from these people is that the software they will probably use
is a
one that browses continuously the internet refreshing its cache without
request
from the client and I am looking for arguments to present to the new
decision
makers to convince them to not use such a bandwidth waster software or at
least
to give me a chance to make a squid demonstartion.

TIA.
FAthi Ben Nasr

Apache a �crit :

> Dear Fathi,
> your story is kinda intresting. ;)
> but did you compare with the feature for squid with msproxy?
> What i think the major different is the price and performance for that
> product.
>
> Do you have a result to stat the msproxy perform great.
> If you would like to talk bout performance. I think Joe is right person
to
> talk to.
>
> you paid and thats what you get. you paid for the bandwidth which you
> subcribed for. why not you able to utilise the service. or maybe you
talking
> bout a different case.
>
> free product doesnt mean bad product, depends on how you evaluate that
> product. and how it can fit to your environment.
>
> regards,
> hwahing
>
> On 16 =?iso-8859-1?Q?-D=E9c-2002_09=3A54=3A40_CET?=, Fathi Ben Nasr wrote
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is not a joke but a real story.
> > I have people here thinking to replace msproxy 2 by a cahe they saw
> > in a demonstartion.
> >
> > What this cache does is continuously browse the internet and reload
> > pages that have been visited by its users and if necessary refreshes
> > them so that when a user reconnects to that site it gets the page
> > from the cache and not from the internet.
> >
> > What I know is that this is a big waste of bandwith secondly and that
> > firstly the internet is not ours and so should not be overloaded by
> > unusefull traffic reloading ech half an our pages that are probably
> > consulted once a week.
> >
> > Do you see any other inconvinient so I could convince this people to
> > not do at least such a big mistake. They still blind and deaf to the
> > use of open-source software.
> >
> > The reason ? Do you remeber the first reclam for the renault clio
> > car : not enough expensive ?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Fathi B.N.
> >
> > (See attached file: smime.p7s)

(See attached file: smime.p7s)