Yes, that's all true about managing Windows. I just waned to illustrate how
you never really know where you code will end up, and it's good to keep in
mind cross-platform issues.
As far as keeping on Windows, at the time, the admins didn't want to go that
way. The application was started on a Win2k box and the admins, who were
hired later, were into Linux and Solaris. We couldn't really pay for Solaris
on everything, so they got Linux. It really wasn't a good idea, though. The
lead developer was off-site, stayed on Win2K and I had to continually
trouble shoot for problems.
Jeff Polaski
"The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk."
-- Ogden Nash
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 9:35 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: end.cfm?
> At a place I worked at several years ago we switched
> from Win2K to Linux because Linux was a lot easier to
> administer remotely. All the production servers were
> in a rack about 30 miles away and it was too much of
> a pain for the admins to drive up there when the
> servers would get wedged. (On Linux (and Unix in general)
> you can easily administer a box over a telnet session.
> Good luck doing that w/Windows...)
I'll grant that it's easier to remotely manage Unices using telnet or ssh,
but you can actually get where you want to go with Windows - it's
easier/cheaper/quicker to set up remote administration on Windows than it is
to switch OSs, I'd guess. There are graphical management tools, like
Terminal Server; there are also command-line tools to perform nearly every
administrative task, and you can use those with the built-in Win2K telnet
server or with a third-party ssh server. I've been satisfied with VShell,
from Van Dyke Software (http://www.vandyke.com/).
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444
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