[Samba] Samba vs Windows SAK

[Khanh Tran]

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:esteadle at spinnakernet.com]
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 3:21 PM
To: John H Terpstra
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
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:jht at samba.org]
>Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 3:11 PM
>To: erx
>Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
>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: jht at samba.org

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