It's perfectly obvious. Windows based systems _still_ don't have the ability to be administered over a simple communications path such as an analogue phone line and a VT100 terminal. This means that if something goes wrong, the sysadmin concerned has to get up and go to the machine itself, which after hours could prove a costly exercise (in both overtime and downtime costs).
There have been so many times I've managed to get a Un*x based system running again in minutes after a problem merely by using a mobile communicator with a VT100 emulator in it. I couldn't do that if it was running on Windows.
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...and with the new DRM capabilities, it'll be able to do so much less.
So you believe that corporate rights overrule individual rights?
It's perfectly obvious. Windows based systems _still_ don't have the ability to be administered over a simple communications path such as an analogue phone line and a VT100 terminal. This means that if something goes wrong, the sysadmin concerned has to get up and go to the machine itself, which after hours could prove a costly exercise (in both overtime and downtime costs).
There have been so many times I've managed to get a Un*x based system running again in minutes after a problem merely by using a mobile communicator with a VT100 emulator in it. I couldn't do that if it was running on Windows.