Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:15:01 EDT From: TM4525@aol.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows Message-ID: <8e.18645afb.2eae7275@aol.com>
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In a message dated 10/24/04 5:54:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time, tedm@toybox.placo.com writes: > I know more than a > few people, > small businessmen mostly, who have been completely screwed because their > almost > totally incompetent unix tech guy left the company. > Ted wrote... >For every small businessman screwed over this way there are ten times >the number who have been screwed over by incompetent Windows tech guys. The point, Ted, is that you can easily find another "incompetent" windows tech, or even a good one to bail you out. With unix you're just screwed. >Windows today is just as complex as any UNIX system. Sure, maybe >a decade ago a peer-to-peer network of Windows systems your >statement might have been true, but not today. You're also missing my point on this. You don't have to get into the guts of windows to make it work. You dont have to be a programmer to tweak all of the applications, in fact I know more than one "windows tech" who knows how to set things up but really has no idea what the settings mean. Yes you have to understand the applications to some degree. But to me, its a different level of skill to install and maintain applications in a unix-like environment. There's also less documentation, fewer resources, etc. So its more difficult to be proficient in unix than in windows. Ask a unix tech to install a windows application, or ask a windows tech to install a unix application. Which do you think has a better chance of success?
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