Comment Re:That's funny... (Score 1) 449
Well, in my environment, despite half a dozen people working on integrating and testing the many crappy Windows apps every enterprise has to use (including add-ins for Office), Windows doesn't 'Just Work'. There is always random weirdness that requires rebooting or killing all related apps and restarting them. Third-party (non-MS) apps just aren't written by developers that know all the MS technology (COM, CDO, ADO, Win32, etc. etc.) ins and outs the way MS does, and the stability of the system suffers. Add to that the web of interdependencies and spaghetti code that is Windows and nobody can figure out what is causing a problem sometimes. 'Upgrade to the latest version and try that.' is what you'll hear a lot.
Take even a very stable MS app like Exchange and you'll find that they introduce tighter security settings on things like the Service Control Manager and now your non-Admin second-level support personnel can't change smtp addresses on their users' accounts. MS- "Try this sc.exe command. If that doesn't work, try this one." NO SOLUTION AVAILABLE. Contrast this with UNIX modularity and the options of both community and professional support options and you can see the difference immediately. Need that permissions thing reverted? Fine, fix it yourself, find a patch on the net or pay a developer. Done.
Funny that no one has mentioned that Apple themselves, when pressed to the wall about directory authentication no longer working on Mac OS X, will tell you "Mac OS X is a consumer OS. We don't support single sign-on and other enterprise features. Sorry."
There are plenty of university lab administrators out there who got burned when Apple broke some things trying to bring up the login screen faster. Oops, better un-install 10.2.x update. Oh crud, I can't un-install it!
It would be nice if someday, Apple were ready to jump in, but in the mean time, Windows and open source OSes do everything you need now, even if Windows leaves a few things to be desired... /djs/
Take even a very stable MS app like Exchange and you'll find that they introduce tighter security settings on things like the Service Control Manager and now your non-Admin second-level support personnel can't change smtp addresses on their users' accounts. MS- "Try this sc.exe command. If that doesn't work, try this one." NO SOLUTION AVAILABLE. Contrast this with UNIX modularity and the options of both community and professional support options and you can see the difference immediately. Need that permissions thing reverted? Fine, fix it yourself, find a patch on the net or pay a developer. Done.
Funny that no one has mentioned that Apple themselves, when pressed to the wall about directory authentication no longer working on Mac OS X, will tell you "Mac OS X is a consumer OS. We don't support single sign-on and other enterprise features. Sorry."
There are plenty of university lab administrators out there who got burned when Apple broke some things trying to bring up the login screen faster. Oops, better un-install 10.2.x update. Oh crud, I can't un-install it!
It would be nice if someday, Apple were ready to jump in, but in the mean time, Windows and open source OSes do everything you need now, even if Windows leaves a few things to be desired...
