On Saturday 01 February 2003 16:00, Buchan Milne wrote: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Leon Brooks wrote: > > And from Unix (SFU - Services For Unix, GPLed(!) software to supply many > > of the Unix services and features still absent from Windows). > > And they still complain about the GPL?
They bought the company which made it and some closed software and the closed stuff is almost useless without the GPL stuff > > > > If we had such a boxed collection the presumtive ms2mandrake consultant > > > could easily do his migration without having to search the whole > > > internet for the tools. > > > > The BorgDrake tool? Plug CD into drive, boot, install Mandrake as server, > > suck all available Windows servers dry and emulate them? (-: Hey, look, a > > Linux box with Port 1433 open! :-) > > Or rather, "What are we going to do now that we have all these MS SQL > boxes to patch?", "Don't worry, we installed latest Mandrake and it > migrate our dbs to postgres, we don't even have to patch, just migrate > the rest, we're running drakpxe now to setup remote network installs". > postgres needs patches to.
