Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 19, 2011 @03:36AM from the right-tool-for-the-job dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's J. Peter Bruzzese provides a list of 15 open source tools for enhancing your Windows server-side experience. 'You might imagine that the best place to go for improving your Microsoft server-side experience is to the mothership itself. In many cases, you would be right. But the truth is there are a meaningful number of open source tools that go above and beyond what Microsoft has to offer in support of Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint. Many of these alternatives provide — for free — more powerful capabilities than what you'd get with third-party retail products.'"

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You proved his point by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-19 03:59 · Score: 0, Troll

You proved his point! With Linux, code doesn't take anywhere near as much time to write as it does on Windows - so your engineers wasted their time (although they aren't really engineers if they used Windows), and Linux software doesn't need maintenance because it doesn't break with every release of the OS. Third party software you bought? You don't *have* to buy any software on Linux because it's all free - you clearly work for a company run by clueless sheep or you're a shill if you even consider Windows to be a positive part of any infrastructure.