Susan Duncan wrote:
> This I don't understand. I can take a brand new system and have it up and running
> with web server, ftp server, sendmail, dns, Cold Fusion and whatever else I need,
> on NT with the latest service packs in about 4-5 hours. I don't have to worry
> about apps stepping on each other, and they aren't fighting each other.
*chuckle* This is what continually gets me, too. 4 to 5 hours? Unless
I get stuck with a bad piece of hardware, RH5 takes all of 90 minutes to
install and configure (and most of that is unpacking). That includes
the web server, ftp, sendmail, dns, perl, mod_perl (and other CF
-replacement toys), firewall, Postgress, etc.
Standing right next to that 90 minute RH machine (which we did last
wednesday), is an identicial machine. We started installing NT server
on it when we finished the RH box. NT took the rest of that day, and
most of Thursday. Admittedly, a large chunk of Thursday was spent
digging for the answers to why NT wouldn't talk to SAMBA (because MS
changed their password encryption default and buried that info in their
site). Of course, local linux user's group had an answer to us in under
an hour, which we had working in about another 2. MS tech support is
supposed to call back sometime this week . . .
We started firewall on Friday. Hope to have that and DNS running by the
end of the day.
Total cost of Linux system, with full suite of services, not including
hardware: $99.00 (RH SSL server) + 90 minutes of my time.
Total cost of NT system, with full (but partial compared to RH box)
suite of services, not including hardware: $6,200 and growing (and not
even considering the big investment in CF yet . . .), + 12 hours and
growing of MCSE time at $80 an hour (3 hours of that mostly on hold with
MS tech support).
Not sure what the reference to apps stepping on/figthing with themselves
is to: this would be a mostly MSOS native thing, wouldn't it?
Guess people's mileage may vary . . . .
;)
B
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