Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 20th Dec 2002 12:41 UTC
"The Open Source community's answer is to ignore Microsoft's incredible technological lead - because it is proprietary and not a standard - and instead focusses on their own cool thing and self-gratifying cool features, because they think they can do better (which is where the ignorance combined with ego comes in)." Join the discussion at Advogato.
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My personal preferance is for:
Netware on file/print. Yes, they still win all the awards and still do it best in this category. NSS 3.0 filesystem in Netware 6.x has full support for NCP, CIFS, NFS, AFP name spaces so anything can talk to em.
Linux for web, dns, dhcp, firewall, IDS, and most other mission critical network services.
Windows for application serving. Like it or not, M$ owns this territory right now.
Email can be handled by ANY platform really. Due to security and up time issues I prefer to host email on Netware or Linux. Although Netware is much better in terms of security, Linux has all the great and free security/ antispam tools.
In my server spaces here and at home the Netware and Linux boxes are really so solid and boring that they dont even need monitors on em. While the Windows boxes do their job well, I spend a great deal of time dealing with memory leaks, security patches, and Virus updates. I think 2kserver could have been so much better if they made it a real server OS (lean and mean and secure) and not 2kpro with some server bolt ons.
As far as M$ trolls vs. Linux Zealots.....yes they are a pain. In my opinion both are a detrement to their respective platforms. I think the Linux ppl (Im one of them) are frustrated by the fact that most M$ only ppl are closed minded, proprietary, and backed by a monster company that holds a monster monopoly. In my experience, most of the ones that bash linux have no business judging anything but M$ products in the first place. Regardless, the attitude of the Linux Zealots to refuse to accept Windows as having a place is not going to help the effort. Especially when Linux cant host much applications. Most of which are win32. As far as M$ being the devil...Im not going to argue there though. They are a convicted monopolist that doesnt compete in this industry...they destroy. The fact that the Linux movement is enormous and world wide doesnt give M$ a target to paint. Which in my mind, all opinions aside, is great for the market and competition.....and generally fun to watch.