I was typing my two cents on the whole Win2k/Samba discussion and about to post it. I was going off about the ASP support and the filesystem, RAID and drivers, TCO and time-to-market, blah blah blah... Then I get this email from CERT and decided to trash the whole email and just give everyone a nice link and let them decide if THIS is what they really want as their appliance OS:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-09.html This is only one of many for those who don't deal with MS servers on a regular basis. Just search CERT for "IIS" and you'll see. I thought they had whole teams of IT people testing these things so the OEM didn't have to, right? :) Khanh Tran Network Operations Sarah Lawrence College -----Original Message----- From: erx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 3:21 PM To: John H Terpstra Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Samba] Samba vs Windows SAK Hi, I wasn't looking for a response to Microsoft. You're right, they could care less what the linux community thinks. What I was looking for was a response for those who might be trying to make a decision about whether to invest in a Microsoft SAK based product, or whether to try using a Linux+Samba based solution. The fact that we *could* demonstrate these things (but haven't) is not sufficient. Not to me, not to those who might be deciding. As far as truth goes, I couldn't disagree more. Truth is relative; truth changes over time. It is affected by what you see, hear, read, and believe. I can affect your truth; you can affect mine. If it weren't true, there would be no point at all to marketing. So you know of nothing, then, that counters Microsoft's arguments? ERX >-----Original Message----- >From: John H Terpstra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 3:11 PM >To: erx >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba vs Windows SAK > > >On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, erx wrote: > >> Has anyone seen this: >> >http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Embedded/sak/evaluation/compare/adva >ntage.asp >> >> And has anyone from the Samba team posted a response? It seems like some of >> the information presented there is contrary to what I know about Samba. > >Why reply to Microsoft? What will it achieve? >As things stand we can demonstrate that they are not in touch: > - Not with their own customers > - Not with Samba capabilities > >As to 'Truth' - customers make up their own minds on that one. No one can >prove 'Truth' to anyone. > >- John T. >-- >John H Terpstra >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba