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Three Enterprise Operating Systems Compared
Anonymous Coward writes "Finally, a much awaited review of enterprise OSes. The guys from NW Test Alliance pitted
Red Hat, UnitedLinux, and Windows against each other and rated them on several rubrics. Red Hat won by a slight margin on the basis of its high hardware compatibility and strong security integration."
Server OS
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Is that really a fair comparison?
Well, if you're an IT director in charge of 1000 machines for a $500 million company, $2500 is chump change. That's one week's salary for one of your 25 DBA's. You don't buy Enterprise if you're just going to run one dinky little web server. And people like you, who expect that everything is supposed to be free are true fucking morons.
Yes, TCO is much higher with non Microsoft platforms. Good point.
Hey fuck all of you! I am an MCSE. There's nothing "paper" about being an MCSE. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to get the cert. Just because I happen to prefer to do real work (like adminning with GUI utilities instead of tweaking stupid text files) doesn't mean I can't be a good admin. Editing files is for lamers who think they are hackers. Well you know what? You didn't build the OS, so you shouldn't be touching or even looking at those files. That's for the engineers who designed the OS. All you Linux and Unix users don't know well enough to leave things to the experts. The only people who should ever have to deal with stuff at the non-GUI level are programmers. People like me (Management/Admin) don't have time to mess with that kind of crap. We have serious work to do to keep the bottom line going. A company that spends money on Unix and Linux may as well be throwing it out the window because they are investing in something that is taking time and money away from real productivity: management. There is no point in employing an in-house developer these days since most of what MS makes does the job just fine. It's a huge waste of investor's money to employ coders unless you are a software business. Custom software should just die off these days as well as open source crap. If one of my techs even thought of using open source, he'd be out on the curb in a minute. I've made that clear to everyone in my department. You should too. If you want to make any money that is.