matthew.brough Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 That's hardly a convincing sales pitch! Quote www.securitywarehouse.co.uk/catalog/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james.wilson Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 it wasnt, im suprised you dont use apple servers Quote securitywarehouse Security Supplies from Security Warehouse Trade Members please contact us for your TSI vetted trade discount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew.brough Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 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 Quote www.securitywarehouse.co.uk/catalog/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixwheeledbeast Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew.brough Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Thats Active Directory. What about Exchange, Sharepoint, Lync? Quote www.securitywarehouse.co.uk/catalog/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixwheeledbeast Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Thats Active Directory. What about Exchange, Sharepoint, Lync? Â There are Unix-type versions or options. They may not be packaged as "products" like Windows. Â 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adi Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 So for the latter, what os would you recommend. Â What do you do for intruder/fire/cctv software that is generally windows based? Â Â Ta Quote I really can't be ar**** with it anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrHappy Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 IIRC the "walking dead" aka AM needs a windows pc & only supports windows servers ? Quote Mr Veritas God Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixwheeledbeast Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 So for the latter, what os would you recommend. Â 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. Â 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. Â 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. Â 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew.brough Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 But why go to all the hassle when you can just buy windows and have done with it? Quote www.securitywarehouse.co.uk/catalog/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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