From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 25 15:15:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C76D116A4CE for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:15:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-m20.mx.aol.com (imo-m20.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7237F43D2F for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:15:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from TM4525@aol.com) Received: from TM4525@aol.com by imo-m20.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id n.8e.18645afb (3964) for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:15:01 -0400 (EDT) From: TM4525@aol.com Message-ID: <8e.18645afb.2eae7275@aol.com> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:15:01 EDT To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5114 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:15:13 -0000 In a message dated 10/24/04 5:54:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time, tedm@toybox.placo.com writes: > I know more than a > few people, > small businessmen mostly, who have been completely screwed because their > almost > totally incompetent unix tech guy left the company. > Ted wrote... >For every small businessman screwed over this way there are ten times >the number who have been screwed over by incompetent Windows tech guys. The point, Ted, is that you can easily find another "incompetent" windows tech, or even a good one to bail you out. With unix you're just screwed. >Windows today is just as complex as any UNIX system. Sure, maybe >a decade ago a peer-to-peer network of Windows systems your >statement might have been true, but not today. You're also missing my point on this. You don't have to get into the guts of windows to make it work. You dont have to be a programmer to tweak all of the applications, in fact I know more than one "windows tech" who knows how to set things up but really has no idea what the settings mean. Yes you have to understand the applications to some degree. But to me, its a different level of skill to install and maintain applications in a unix-like environment. There's also less documentation, fewer resources, etc. So its more difficult to be proficient in unix than in windows. Ask a unix tech to install a windows application, or ask a windows tech to install a unix application. Which do you think has a better chance of success?