On Saturday 01 February 2003 11:00 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Leon Brooks wrote: >> And from Unix (SFU - Services For Unix, GPLed(!) software to supply many >> of the Unix services and features still absent from Windows).
> And they still complain about the GPL? Yup. Chutzpah defined. >>> If we had such a boxed collection the presumtive ms2mandrake consultant >>> could easily do his migration without having to search the whole >>> internet for the tools. >> The BorgDrake tool? Plug CD into drive, boot, install Mandrake as server, >> suck all available Windows servers dry and emulate them? (-: Hey, look, a >> Linux box with Port 1433 open! :-) > Or rather, "What are we going to do now that we have all these MS SQL > boxes to patch?", "Don't worry, we installed latest Mandrake and it > migrate our dbs to postgres, we don't even have to patch, just migrate > the rest, we're running drakpxe now to setup remote network installs". It'd make a great screenplay, and far more plausible than a Cassiopea uploading a virus to an alien spaceship... (-: actually, a virus on a Windows handheld is highly believable, but the upload, or the concept of aliens running anything vaguely Windows compatible... :-) Cheers; Leon
