Re: Eperiences with Online under NT 4

On 18 Feb 97 at 11:00, Nils Myklebust wrote: > The only gripe I have with Unix are that the vendors only lately > have realy started working on making administration simple. You > still need too much Unix experitse and there aren't enough people to > go arround with this expertise. The result may be that you end up > with having to buy from one of the big companies who at least have > been rather expensive (see below). There is still to much arroganse > on the expert side among too many Unix people, and too little > understanding for making things simple. I disagree here. It's relatively simple to administer Unix to any level (IMHO) and we have far more access to Unix expertise in .za than NT. But Unix has a clear conceptual administration model, whereas NT's seems to be a hodge-podge of Unix, Windows, VM/MVS and the IEEE working group on sub-atomic transistor components... > Of course the problem with NT is that even though it may be simple > at the outset you easily hit impregnable walls where you aren't able > to make it work even with a lot of expertise. Can't argue with that! > A Unix with a top notch administration GUI that was designed with > simplisity in mind would have been ideal. These are on their way, > but may still have some way to go. Yes, has anybody checked SCO's hilarious SCOAdmin lately? As I've said before, under NT if you load and go and it loads and goes, it's great. But otherwise... -- Ciao, Billy "...nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat..."