James Wilson wrote: > > > Whats wrong with service packs and AV and security hot fixes? Us > networking guys have to stay in business. > > Seriously though I would recommend using Linux over MS. This recent > daylight savings time issue shows how Microsoft can be heavy handed. > Basically you have to upgrade systems to the newest OS in order to have > the correct time to show up when day light savings time occurs. Or you > can pay them $40k for a special patch.
I have 6 M$ W2000 servers to look after and 150 XP professional clients. We have SMS to push patches, updates, anti-virus signature files but always have 10-20% of the clients that fail to get the push. I have two military people doing all the patching that SMS misses plus all the other routine things that you have to do for a customer. I have worked the same environment with 12 Unix/Linux servers and 550 Unix/Linux clients and had only two individuals for customer server and the systems worked better. Do I have a problem with M$, nope...but my company sure does in what they have to spend. Oh yes, its your tax money that is paying for this IT...almost 4 times for M$ as it cost using Unix/Linux. Multiply this by the 200 other like units and you spend $1500 per seat per year for M$ and 2/3 of that ($1000) for Linux/Unix. So M$ is costing $100,000 more per year for the 200 like units...and these 200 units probably account for less than 1% of the total department's IT use. So let's let the U.S. goberment spend...errr give? our tax dollars to M$. Walt/K5YFW
