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How Hard is it to Manage Different Unices?

vrmlguy asks: "Where I work has several Unix-based servers, all running the same vendor's OS. We are getting ready to buy another big server, and management wants to get bids from other vendors. However, our staff is only familar with our current vendor's OS. Yes, I know that any two flavors of Unix are more alike than not, and yes, I know about the Rosetta Stone for Unix that makes it easy to transfer skills. I want to know about the down-side: What's the difference in the cost of operations between a mono-culture and a shop running two or more vendors' OSs?"

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  1. FIRST WE LOVE CEREN POST! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't you think open source software would be more popular if it were advocated by girls like this instead of old guys with beards? What we need are more free software babes like her. This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. If we do have to have the old guys with beards, we could at least make sure they are plenty of hot chicks too. I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat!

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  2. MOD PARENT DOWN! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How redundant can you get? And "Unices"? Yarg.

  3. I claim this FP... by TweeKinDaBahx · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For CLIT.

    Fag.

  4. VA Research^WLinux^WSoftware Stock Jokes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How many shares of VA software does it take to change a lightbulb?

    All of them, VA stock is worth less than a lightbulb.

    Whats the difference between buying a lottery ticket and buying a share of VA software?

    With the lottery, they is still a chance you might profit.

    Whats the difference between VA software stock and a box of anvils thrown off an airplane?

    VA software stock falls faster.

    Why did Santa Claus buy 5000 shares of VA software stock?

    He wanted to leave naughty children something worth less then coal

    What would you have to sell to buy all the shares of LNUX?

    One share of microsoft.

  5. Then again. . . by czardonic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you rely on Ford or Chevrolet, you are going to need a team of mechanics. Better to pick a resource that you can rely on and not complicate your life needlessly.

    --
    Takahashi Rumiko made beats! DON, taku, DON, taku. . .
  6. Re:I see it like this... by Adam+Glen · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'd like to inform you in this message that your use of decimal is disturbing to geeks. I am repeating this message in slashdot to disturbing decimal posts. I think it likely that you do not know what radices mean, or else you would be using hexadecimal. Read about hexadecimal at intuitor and repost your comment using hexadecimal. You may use "0x" as a prefix or "h" as a suffix for the numbers.