Steven J. Owens said:
>
> If you're already an experienced & skilled NT admin (or have one
> willing to support you) and you don't want to learn about the wonders
> of Linux, it's going to be a lot simpler to get an NT box.
I agree up to a point. People must be careful, though, not to assume
that experience with NT will translate to easy support for the
things that run *on* NT. IMHO, that's what too many big corps are
doing (along the lines of "no one ever got fired for buying IBM").
Just because it says "MS" and has a GUI does not automatically mean
ease-of-use.
I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person. I run NT on my
desktop. (No, Rich, that is not an oxymoronic pair of statements. :)
I have found NT-on-the-desk to be an easy transition to make from
the days win Win3/Win95. I have some experience with our Exchange and
NT workgroup servers, and they too, have not exactly been all bad.
But...(and I think I said this before) I have found IIS/SiteServer
to be the most confusing piece of junk that I have ever seen.
Getting content on IIS out of the box was trivial. But to make it do
anything more than the basics has resulted in irritation and
swelling. Perhaps my long-term exposure to NCSA/Apache has put me in
an uncorrectbale mindset, but I really have been frustrated.
Ease-of-use? Yeah, right. Another friend [at another company] whose
skills I respect is having similar issues. And he has been Win-centric
for most his life, so I know it can't just be me/us. Can it?
--bill
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