[sdw2003] Recipe for splitting the network/business

[BMF]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Domain Support <domainsupport at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a very common oversight by Linux people.  It never seems to amaze me
> that you can be critical, actually borderline rude in response to James'
> post.

Rude? Hardly. I just made a suggestion and provided some numbers. It's
not like I called out his momma or anything.

> You are trying to establish that you should move everyone to a completely different
> structure and setup, with different procedures, different configuration,
> etc.

Er...no. To the end users nothing would change (aside from better
uptime due to not having to reboot after patch Tuesday). That is the
ideal. No retraining would be required or anything.

> If you had more experience on the windows platform you would
> realize this.

Er...I support (runs off and counts) 12 Windows Server 2003 servers
(all fully patched up, thankyouverymuch, no zombies or botnets here!
But they are strictly forbidden from talking to the net in general by
firewall rules), have had an MCSE for years (which I keep current),
and see the costs involved every day. We only run the 12 Windows
Server 2003 servers because of a vendor integration requirement. We
also have a little over 200 Linux servers (which I have half a hand
in) and around 30 Linux workstations (thin clients), 8 macs
(executives) and a token Windows desktop.

> It sounds like you have great ideas and good experience in
> the Linux world, and there are many people on the net that would appreciate
> your help.

I have more Windows experience than Linux at this point but I'm hoping
that will change over time. Having seen the difference and the two
platforms side by side for a few years now I'm sold. Windows has a few
uses (such as our vendor app above) but only because of lack of
choice, not because it is technically superior or has better TCO.

But since suggesting anything other than Windows bothers you I'll
leave you and James to guide your client in peace now. :)

BMF