Unix vs. NT

Unix Promo Corner

John Kirchs article is an excellt example how to mention the work of "both camps" !

If you have some more references like this, don't hesitate to drop me a note, I'll add it to this list ;-)

• Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX, by John Kirch, Networking Consultant and Microsoft Certified Professional (Windows NT). An excellent comparison between Unix and NT with many links to interesting Webpages. Contains quotations from people running Unix servers successfully in their IT environment. This article mentions FreeBSD and Linux very often, outperforming Windows NT. You can visit the positive comments on his review in the guestbook of his site.
• Sicherheitsempfehlungen zu Windows NT Netzen in Krankenhäusern (Artikel beschreibt den überproportionalen Aufwand der erforderlich ist, ein NT System einigermassen zu securen, aber selbst das währt nicht ewig, weil ein jedes Aufspielen eines M$ Service Packs diese sorgsamen Einstellungen wieder ruiniert)
• Microsoft uses FreeBSD and Solaris Machines because of ... guess what ;-)
• Sys Admin, Security Tools in FreeBSD, by Guy Helmer
• NC World Magazine: The re-emergence of Unix threatens to modify the future direction of NT, by Nicholas Petreley
• NC World Magazine: The Politics of NC Computing According to Oracle, by Rawn Shaw
• Tech Web: A Question of Cost: Unix, NT Proponents Debate Which OS Has Lower Cost of Ownership
• Tech Web, Towers of Power -- We test five muscular Web servers aimed at high-end intranet applications, by Sean Fulton
• CPT's Microsoft Antitrust Pages
• Microsoft's Ambitions and Antitrust Policy
• Computer Currents Net, Linux Grows Up, Red Hat's commercial Linux beats NT at its own game, NT = Not Today, by Maggie Biggs
• ZD Net, Corporate IT needs an engine that never quits, by Peter Coffee
• ZD Net, We do not have a failure to communicate, by Peter Coffee
• ZD Net, The next battleground: Linux vs. Windows?, by  Mary Jo Foley
• ZD Net, How did Microsoft pay you to write this article?, by Joseph Day
• ZD Net, I'd fire someone for using NT, by Torsten Holvak, "We use FreeBSD for everything and there is nothing more stable"
• ZD Net, The Whole Truth About Windows NT, Jon C.A. DeKeles, Technical Director ZDNet AnchorDesk
• ZD Net, NT lies, by Ed Bott, nice list of lies ;-)
• ZD Net, Once Burned, Twice Shy, by David Chernicoff, Windows Sources' technical director
• Replacing Windows NT Server with Linux, by Quinn P. Coldiron, (could someone rewrite it for FreeBSD, contains useful promo material :-))
• An In-Depth Analysis of Five Commercial UNIX Operating Systems and Windows NT Server 4.0 (EnterpriseEdition) by D.H. Brown Associates, Inc.
• You say Unix does't have nice GUI's ? Look at the Window Managers guide for Unix ! Don't miss Enlightenment and KDE ! ;-)
• Case Study: Migration Migraines, Aberdeen Group
• SUN Also Rises: Solaris Vs. NT, by The Standish Group
• UNIX vs. NT, by bitwizard B.V.
• www.windows95.com , "We use Pentium Pro computers running the BSDI UNIX operating system with Apache Web server software."
• BSD/OS vs. NT

Comparing BSDI and NT, by Berkeley Software Design, Inc.

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