Jeff Kell ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
:
: No idea of AS/400, but *nix will overwhelm you.

There was a posting today in comp.os.vms that said OS/400 was
a menu-driven system for former users of IBM's System/3x line.

*nix is a religion (Satanic cult ?) with many sects, such as
Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64, Linux, *BSD, et.al. Command line
was designed for a Model 33 TTY, hence the cryptic commands.

There's a site that compare *nix to Windows:

   http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/
   The UNIX versus NT Organization

: Win* is tolerable,

For VERY small values of "tolerable". A few of the gripes about
Windows NT/2000/XP:

  o No standard way of restoring a backup to a "bare metal" new disk.

  o SID crap, although the SID can be changed.

  o No standard RELIABLE way of gaining remote access. A friend's son
    went on a jihad at his employer's, replacing Windows servers with
    Linux boxes in remote (as in 12 time zones away).

  o No way of forcing a crash dump, at least as of Windows NT

  o No remote diagnosis of crash dumps, like Compaq's Customer Support
    Center can provide for OpenVMS.

  o Support - Microsoft, need I say more ? The four "R"s of Microsoft support:

      Retry
      Reboot
      Reinstall
      Repeat

    You can call Microsoft for support, but have that credit card handy.

: though not terribly scalable [yet] if you don't mind making frequent
: visits to windowsupdate.microsoft.com and are willing to accept the
: [in-]security of Windows.
:
There's some talk by Microsoft of pushing patches to clients' servers,
to prevent Code Red type of plagues. Be afraid, be very afraid.

: In short, I'd say you're going to need help, maybe lots of it.  Come to
: think of it, maybe that is why so many vendors are turning to "services"
: for revenue.

Microsoft providing service ?  Only in the animal husbandry sense.

--Jerry Leslie     (my opinions are strictly my own)

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