But then again, Active Directory is convoluted, difficult to implement correctly, and is required to get most of the aspects of Server 2000 and to the best of my knowledge 2003. So, now that NT 4.0 is dead " long live NT 4.0, what's an IT shop to do?
Guess what Forrester Research thinks? Yep, you're right. That's the answer. Come'on, say it. It's LINUX.
In one of my clients we have the following server farm. Server 2000 for Exchange, Server 2000 for SQL, Server 2000 for Fax Server/SQL, Server 2000 for Accounting/SQL, Server 2000 for File Server/Print Server and one lone Fedora Core 1 LINUX server for a web server. Can you imagine the cost of those Windows 2000 boxes compared to that little old LINUX server " where I can use the OS over and over and over again without paying for it over and over and over again?
Anyway, as always, Microsoft has its work cut out for it as it has to convince business to fork over more cash.
I say, look at LINUX or MAC OS X (which I recently gained a tremendous respect for). Now if only Apple would send me a MAC so I can about it, and learn more, but that's another story!
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