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From: Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM>
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Subject: Re: SMIT(System Maintenance Interface Tool) 
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  From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
  Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 19:48:51 +0100

  Thomas David Rivers wrote in message ID
  <199605181339.JAA08152@lakes>:
  >  Well - just to throw in that ever-dissenting opinion - but,
  > I have to manage several machines; one of which is AIX.  All
  > of them are easy to handle, except for the AIX machine, because
  > of SMIT... 

  A survey in the UK disagrees. It highlights the fact that a central
  management interface for the maintence and configuration of AIX makes
  AIX more cost effective to run than Windows NT server, and several
  other ``popular'' operating systems. I believe I posted the article on
  - -chat, if you want to look in the archive.

I know AIX SMIT by word-of-mouth only, and that it is uniformly
negative.  Just a (very fuzzy) datapoint.