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Come on guys.... not on nanog. Can't you smell a clever market research plot from Microsoft when you see one? Whoever started this is just testing the waters for embedded NT... Dirk PS: Yes, Linux will kill NT as server platform. No doubt about it. This list has a different purpose. On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 09:23:13AM -0700, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: > At 01:12 PM 5/25/98 +0400, Alex P. Rudnev wrote: > >You are wrong a little. The difference is: > > > >- if you use MS and it don't work, your boss blame to BILL GATES. > > > >- if you use FreeBSD (or Linux, through FreeBSD is better for the > >networking) and it don't work, your boss blame _guess, who? - YOU_ . > > Nope, buying IBM/M$ to secure your job is a canard. In both cases, if you > are an employee you will lose credibility (lose enough of that and your job > follows), as an owner of a business you lose customers (lose enough of > *that* and you'll have to get a real job). If an employee causes sufficient > loss of business through bad decisions, they get canned (back to > credibility again). > > We run Caldera here, with WinNT workstations. This is not simply because we > are a Caldera VAR. Linux servers are much more reliable than WinNT, > although we have *one* of those also, no choice and it's constantly in > Intensive Care (Netscape ES3.51 locks up regularly or NT auto-boots and we > have to MANUALLY enter the VeriSign password. We are working on an > Linux/Apache-SSL/PostgreSQL/self-certifying solution). BTW, Caldera does > not yet have an Enterprise Server solution, but there's one on the way. > > >That's a matter. > > > >> > >> The reason is simple. While we sit here bitching about this "minor" > >> issue and that "minor" issue, like the state of the net, the S&M > >> (Sales and Marketing, but sometimes I wonder) people are out there > >> from Mickeysoft promoting the "No one ever got fired for buying M$" > >> message. NT is a >corporate< product. This, in my view, means that > >> you don't care if it works as long as you can hire someone else to > >> fix it and your budget is maintained. Hell, if we started using "free" > >> products, we wouldn't have license fees to pay and my budget to run > >> a 100 node NT network would disappear. Budgets = Power in that sad > >> world. > > > >... > > > > _________________________________________________ > Morgan Hill Software Company, Inc. > Colorado Springs, CO - Livermore, CA - Morgan Hill, > CA����������������������������������� > Domain Administrator > MHSC2-DOM and MHSC3-DOM > Administrative and Technical contact > ____________________________________________ > InterNIC Id: MHSC hostmaster (HM239-ORG) > e-mail: <mailto:[email protected]>mailto:[email protected] > web -pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/>http://www.mhsc.com/ >
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