From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jul 25 14:37:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA26039 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 14:37:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from info.tsu.tomsk.su (TSU-Relarn.Relarn.ru [194.226.29.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA26031 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 14:37:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by info.tsu.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.2) with UUCP id FAA25184 for isp@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:37:58 +0800 (TSD) Received: (from vas@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.3) id MAA05435 for isp@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 12:09:34 +0800 (TSD) From: "Victor A. Sudakov" Message-Id: <199707250409.MAA05435@vas.tomsk.su> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and NT To: isp@freebsd.org (freebsd isp mailing list) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 12:09:33 +0800 (TSD) Reply-To: vas@vas.tsu.tomsk.su In-Reply-To: from "Stephen Roome" at "Jul 23, 97 01:03:16 pm" Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stephen Roome wrote: [...] > > However if the arguments against UNIX are true then all it means are that > you will need a competent intelligent sysadmin. > > So, really all the arguments so far in favour of NT seem to be about the > competence required to use NT vs. the competence required to use UNIX. [...] > look at the arguments the NT side is fighting mainly on the premise of > "we're too stupid to use UNIX". [...] I have a friend sysadmin who is familiar both with UNIX and NT and he says that NT is easy to use only until you do not have to do anything advanced. If you have to do something more complicated you need a lot of NT-specific training and special competence. Perhaps, NT is really an excellent platform for a secretary to run MS Office though. -- Victor Sudakov http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm