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."

Comments

Three?

[jejones]

You'd think that the United Federation of Planets would pick one and stick with it...

Re:Three?

[Surak]

Yeah, I know. The triple-boot scenario is a real pain too. The Romulans show up, start firing on us, and we're like "Quick. Fire photon torpedoes!" And, well, sadly the photon torpedo driver is closed source and no one's reverse-engineered one for Linux yet, so we have to sit there and take a pounding while the damn ship boots Windows 2349 Starship Edition.

A real pain, let me tell you.

Re:Three?

[agentZ]

Hi, I'm Clippy! I seem to be unable to comply! Would you like to use the Photon Torpedos wizard to plot a firing solution?

Re:Three?

[91degrees]

You know, you had me wondering WTF you were talking about for 5 minutes until I reread the title of the story. You fucking geeks really take the cake don't you. Are you that idiotic that you don't understand Enterprise Operating Systems are for large corporations?

Well, perhaps you should read the article before the comments.

anyway, let me explian... The comment was what we referred to as a "Joke". This is a deliberately nonsensical comment designed to provoke mirth. By misinterpreting the word "Enterprise", as the starship in the well known Science fiction Series "Star Trek".

Re:Three?

[notque]

Yeah, I know. The triple-boot scenario is a real pain too. The Romulans show up, start firing on us, and we're like "Quick. Fire photon torpedoes!" And, well, sadly the photon torpedo driver is closed source and no one's reverse-engineered one for Linux yet, so we have to sit there and take a pounding while the damn ship boots Windows 2349 Starship Edition.

Reverse-engineered?

But what about the Ultra-Super-Terrorist Stoping-DCMA ver 9.4 Beta?

If you even consider reverse engineering anything, Windows 2349 will not only catch you, but deliver punishment as well.

*shakes violently in thought*

No more Blue Screen of death.....

Re:Three?

[Anonymous Coward]

Please select the next step:

[ ] The firing solution worked. The Romulans have been destroyed.

[ ] The firing solution worked, but the Romulans were only damaged. Fire again.

[ ] The firing solution failed. The Romulans are still attacking.

[ ] I want to try another weapon.

[Next] [Back] [Cancel]

Re:Three?

[pnix]

We could always take Windows 2349 and put on a big 50 meter tall monitor on it and click the start menu and the flash of the BSOD will blind them while we pursue to throw our bad CD-R's at them from all the failed burns we've had and then they will bleed to death or something.
Windows destroys our sanity, so we destroy them with windows!

BUT...

[brunes69]

Will all thes eoperating systems also have the voice of Majel Roddenberry?

I think NOT!

Re:OS X Server

[someme2]

ME: I will now recite three random numbers... 74... 21... 48... 11...

SLASHDOT GUY: Well among others you definitely missed 82.

ME: Thank you for the valuable information.

Re:LCARS is my preferred OS for the Enterprise

[Mononoke]

..dig the hot chick's voice on bootup!

Hey! That "hot chick" is my mom!
--signed: Deanna Troi

Thanks a lot!

[jaymzter]

Good spoiler right at the end of the article synopsis... Totally ruined my urge to RTFA. At least you didn't spit out some nonsense about Harry Potter dying at the end of Matrix Revolutions

Re:High hardware?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's not high. You just left a terminator off the scsi chain somewhere.

Re:OS X Server

[onion2k]

OTHER SLASHDOT GUY: Erm, actually, that was 4 random numbers...

Re:Poor article

[Anonymous Coward]

Exactly! I mean where are all the screenshots? Who ever heard of an OS review or comparison without screenshots?

Well mod me flamebait

[Graspee_Leemoor]

WTF is an "enterprise" anyway? Oooooh, a really big and important company with really important computer needs...?

"Enterprise" is the edition of Microsoft you buy if you've got far too much money and you want all the features enabled, I know that much.

But "Enterprise" ? WTF? And SME- small to medium enterprise ? Whoah, it's like a really big company except it's small... What?!

Oh, I've got it now- "Enterprise" is a way of describing computer systems or companies so I know in advance that they're really boring and have nothing to do with flashy graphics or fun technologies. It's an enterprise-ready mail-server! (Yawn).

graspee

Re:Meanwhile, from someone who didn't fail statist

[archen]

Well we could always go to the "pinball score inflation system".

As you can see windows is very good for a desktop operating sytem, which gives it another 8 million points. KDE on Linux while not being perfect also did quite well so it only scored 2 million below windows. Emacs comes in at a low score of 3 million total as a desktop operating sytem. In our next review we will be showing the differences between file servers... as soon as our point system is upgraded to a 64 bit processor