Why Windows Server Deserves Unix Admin's Respect
Linked by snydeq on Tue 8th Mar 2011 23:54 UTC
Windows Grizzled Unix vet Paul Venezia tips his cap to the Windows Server crew, suggesting that the lessons of Unix history have not been lost on Microsoft -- and that's one reason why Windows Server has become so complex. 'The Windows Server of today has more in common with Unix than many people want to admit. The upside: more stable servers, greater scope of services, better adherence to standards, and Microsoft's newfound willingness to work with its competition. The downside is that Windows has become more complex than Unix from a management and administration point of view,' Venezia writes, even if he still sees some Windows admin practices as prime examples of how not to administer servers.
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nt_jerkface
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2009-08-26

No it is not that simple.

Both Linux and Unix vendors have not cared about the small or medium business markets or working to make it easier to integrate Windows networks with Unix services. Samba has been underfunded for years and companies like Novell don't seem to care.

MS keeps improving software like SBS, exchange, sharepoint and AD while companies like Red Hat continue to focus on big Unix migrations.

Red Hat has even stated that they aren't trying to convert MS shops.

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elsewhere Member since:
2005-07-13

Samba has been underfunded for years and companies like Novell don't seem to care.


You chose the one company in the world that generates hundreds of millions of dollars from selling the only commercially viable alternative to Microsoft's directory/network services to criticize for not funding an open source alternative to Microsoft's directory/network services. Netware is slowly dying on it's own, last thing Novell needs to do is accelerate the process.

And despite that, the lead Samba developer was in fact a Novell employee. At least until he quit and went to Google, after the whole Microsoft deal thingie.

I don't disagree with your sentiment, but really.

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