Star Review: Windows Services for UNIX
Linked by Roberto Dohnert on Tue 17th Jun 2003 19:25 UTC
Windows Everyone knows what Microsoft does by now. What some people do not know is that Microsoft releases a system integration software named Windows services for UNIX.
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WSFU does have some value, but not for users
by Anonymous on Wed 18th Jun 2003 22:12 UTC

Cygwin is my favorite personal productivity tool on wintel machines, I believe that the author should have mentioned what I see as the natural niche for WSFU : hooking the unix servers in corporates for heavy lifting (like SAP) into MS where the suits trust Microsoft, even for things like DNS.

WSFU is good at allowing *nix machines and services (eg NFS and auth protocols) to use services running on MS. Yes, I know about Samba, but using WSFU allows you to point the blame for failed services TOTALLY on MS.

Actually, this reminds me that MS products overcome one of the longest-standing rules in computer science, the one first stated by Turing: the halting problem: you cannot know if a program will halt or not unless you run it. Not true for MS - if its from MS you know it will halt ;-)