Hi,

|There are people who run a Windows 2003 box as just an XMail server 
|-- to me that doesn't make sense, since with the same hardware, you 
|could load Redhat from disk, install Xmail from RPMs and have just 
|about the same ease of install and management as Windows 2003 (and, 
|if I remember correctly there's a significant performance boost when 
|using XMail on Linux).  On the other hand, some people just like 
|Windows.

not only "like" but "know" is the keyword for me. There is very few people
who really understands Windows AND Un*x. Give ordinary Un*x admin a Windows
box and Windows admin a Un*x box and the result would be same: bad.

I would not use Un*x. Never, nowhere. Even in cases when it's from
performance and so on reason the best. Because I do not understand it and
have no chance to be as good as on Windows (and have no time to try it). So,
when I run something, it must be either on Windows (then I can handle it) or
a blackbox hardware solution from respectible company.

For me it's simply cheaper and simplier to buy a stronger machine, than
learn other OS.

I would not like to see Win/Lin flamewar here. I personally have nothing
agains Unix-based OS and so on. But Windows and Unix are two different
worlds. Only very few projects is *really* working on both.

Just now I am fighting with Perl on Windows to run SpamAssassin. The
performance is HORRIBLE. Maybe its my fault, but I can't see it. In native
..NET application I know where the bottlenecks are. In Perl I don't know and
no chance that I'll learn in some reasonable time.

Simply don't mix the worlds. Please.

-- Altair

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