Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:37:36 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Markus_D=F6hr?= <doehrm@aubi.de> To: "'John K'" <john@volvo.se>, "Mark L. Holloway" <mlholloway@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Windows NT Message-ID: <AB06BBFD8AFBD111B07600805FCB119224269E@EXCHANGE.aubi.de>
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> > I'm not trying to praise NT - just wanting some information > > explaining why people should choose one OS over another. I can tell you we're running our SAP R/3 installation on NT servers with an average uptime of 60 days and above. Most reboots are caused by updates of DB and/or system, not due to crashes. I didn't believe before that NT is as reliable as it appears. IMHO the main reason, why people choose NT for p. ex. webserver is the availability of 'ready-to-install' software packages for e-commerce applications etc. Although all the *BSD and *nix are obviously much more stable and much faster, many companies don't have any specific knowledge of programming HTML nor PHP-3. They'd like to have a ready solution for their need, only customization has to be done, no real programming and adaption. They want install on monday and run productive at thursday. It don't believe NT is as realiable as using it for an e-commerce solution, the security holes in IIS are too bad and make me sick believing that it's secure. On the other hand for making NT real secure, you need very much knowledge, I think much more, than on any *nix, because of the proprietary binary-only registry database, the file system rights and the unexpected behaviour when chainging something and the worse: lack of debugging errors. People always think that NT is easier in administration - a real fallacy. The complexity is hidden behind a nice point-and-klick-gui but in the depth it's much more complicated than any other OS I know. If there are problems, you always has to stand up, go to the console and try do find out what's goin' wrong. No remote administration possible without buying expensive packages (SMS, ResourceKit etc.). Try to administer NT over a 28.8 Modem and you better drive 50 miles before stopping and starting services remotely. It's worse, really worse. -- Markus Doehr IT Admin AUBI Baubeschläge GmbH Tel.: +49 6503 917 152 Fax : +49 6503 917 190 e-Mail: doehrm@aubi.de MD1139-RIPE ************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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