Dell, Is There Any Other Company That Can Compete With Their **** Service And Incompetence?

[matthew.brough]

That's hardly a convincing sales pitch!

[james.wilson]

it wasnt, im suprised you dont use apple servers

[matthew.brough]

Not seen anything that remotely rivals the integration of active directory / exchange / share point etc

I don't see any products that compete at all with the windows server system

[sixwheeledbeast]

But Linux has been around for yonks. What's changed / going to change that will convince widows monkeys like me to stop spending thousands on windows licenses and use the free alternative?

 

You still keep saying free and Linux. There are Unix-type OS's that are not Free, Apple or Red Hat for starters.

 

Not seen anything that remotely rivals the integration of active directory / exchange / share point etc

I don't see any products that compete at all with the windows server system

 

Unix-like does permissions differently. Anyway, Active Directory can be integrated into Unix-like systems.

[matthew.brough]

Thats Active Directory. What about Exchange, Sharepoint, Lync?

[sixwheeledbeast]

Thats Active Directory. What about Exchange, Sharepoint, Lync?

 

There are Unix-type versions or options. They may not be packaged as "products" like Windows.

 

The thing is you are so integrated into Windows software that it's hard to move.

I said some will move away from Windows, if you only use a browser, office suite and a mail client any OS is easy to migrate to.

[Adi]

So for the latter, what os would you recommend.

 

What do you do for intruder/fire/cctv software that is generally windows based?

 

 

Ta

[MrHappy]

IIRC the "walking dead" aka AM needs a windows pc & only supports windows servers ?

[sixwheeledbeast]

So for the latter, what os would you recommend.

 

What do you do for intruder/fire/cctv software that is generally windows based?

I currently use Ubuntu, with a different DE.

There are many different ones, Ubuntu has a large user base so can be easier to start with.

It has Firefox, Thunderbird and LibreOffice. Libre can open and convert most windows formats including the new xlsx and docx formats.

It's not really Linux I am seeing more of, Mac's are getting popular with customers as is Google's cloud offering.

 

Regarding security software, I have Wintex and Heitel applications running with Wine compatibility layer.

Compatibility layers are not perfect (ideally the application should be ported), but it saves needing a Windows machine at all for odd bits.

 

Other options/workarounds include having a Virtual Windows machine inside your OS or having one PC and using a LogMeIn type service, SSVNC or the like.

Basically I try to avoid any kit that isn't cross-platform, anything else I can normally get to run with Wine.

When I switched to Linux a while ago now I started with the intention of dual-booting a windows hard-drive. Within months I was removing Windows from anything I could.

 

IIRC the "walking dead" aka AM needs a windows pc & only supports windows servers ?

That wouldn't surprise me, a large amount of stuff in our industry is "Windows only" or needs crappy ActiveX controls.

According to there weby the Server works on Linux but the Client is Windows only.

I would expect a client to work with Wine.

Hopefully someone will design a decent cross-platform solution in the future.

[matthew.brough]

But why go to all the hassle when you can just buy windows and have done with it?