Seems to me that we're seeing one of the true benefits of the competition brought about by having multiple NOS's in the field. Features from one (example: Win2K's multithreaded TCPIP stack) that seem to be a good idea are being incorporated into the others at the time of the article's writing. Such activity only raises the bar for ALL available offerings and truly seems to push the decision of which NOS to use away from the jihad of Linux vs. Micro$ft vs. Novell that it's become in recent years. The way things are boling down nowadays point to being able to select your NOS on the basis of budget and function instead. IMHO this counts as a good thing. NT/W2K's strength is that it's a kitchen sink approach to an NOS and can function in any role you throw at it. Linux benefits from it's lower cost and customisability (real word?) in that you can ditch pretty much anything you don't need that comes included in order to optimize it for the functions it will be performing. Novell I've had much less experience with and as a result will avoid making general statements about.
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Seems to me that we're seeing one of the true benefits of the competition brought about by having multiple NOS's in the field. Features from one (example: Win2K's multithreaded TCPIP stack) that seem to be a good idea are being incorporated into the others at the time of the article's writing. Such activity only raises the bar for ALL available offerings and truly seems to push the decision of which NOS to use away from the jihad of Linux vs. Micro$ft vs. Novell that it's become in recent years. The way things are boling down nowadays point to being able to select your NOS on the basis of budget and function instead. IMHO this counts as a good thing. NT/W2K's strength is that it's a kitchen sink approach to an NOS and can function in any role you throw at it. Linux benefits from it's lower cost and customisability (real word?) in that you can ditch pretty much anything you don't need that comes included in order to optimize it for the functions it will be performing. Novell I've had much less experience with and as a result will avoid making general statements about.