Re: **Secure** Ftp server

From: Hairy One Kenobi (abuse_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:59:29 GMT

<phn@icke-reklam.ipsec.nu> wrote in message
news:ce6hct$2v1b$1@nyheter.ipsec.se...
> Leythos <void@nowhere.com> wrote:
> > In article <ce5iu3$2khc$1@nyheter.ipsec.se>, phn@icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
> > says...
> >> Mike <honey@michaelmoyse.co.uk> wrote:
> >> > phn@icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:

<snip>

> > Linux and it's variants is only one path, and it's not free by any
> > means, let alone for an installed Windows base. If you actually start
> > tracking the cost of a Linux server installation/maintenance to that of
> > a Windows 2000 server installation, doing the exact same things, they
> > are equal in time/effort and most big shops don't get the free version,
> > they get one that includes support agreements from one of the bigger nix
> > vendors, so cost is about the same.
>
> You should try it and answer from experience and not by quoting
> MS sales litterature. That's MS task, your ought to be to evaluate
> all possible ways of fulfilling a task.

Can't answer myself - although (without necessarily being told!) I discover
that my company is now an MS development partner; for the last two decades
we've been an IBM/Cisco/Sun/Oracle/HP/Novell development partner, and are
one of the few companies developing Linux solutions for the mainframe.

Which probably explains my.. uhh.. rather specific tolerance limits for
someone that /claims/ to have a clue, but fails to even note the most
fundamental stipulation of the original question.

Advocacy certainly has its place (although in Marketing, rather than
Software Engineering).

UNIX has its place. Windows has its place. Linux has its place. Even the
VIC-20 probably has a place (sorry - those blocky screen characters are a
pet hate of mine ;o)

A random twat advocating a platform on the basis of what he/she "feels" is
right is, well.. a twat. Unfortunately, most of the pro-Linux posts in this
particular froup fall into this category.

A shame, really, as it sets back the acceptance of Linux by Big Business.
And, let's face it - MS only ever /really/ deliver in the face of
overwhelming competition.

H1K

P.S. It might help if some of these "experienced" and "skilful" Linux types
would assist in getting the basics right. Staring with getting the latest RH
distro to run on a standard 15" TFT (the only reason, after all, why I've
recently stopped running a Linux box after "only" 8 years..)*

* No ideology - just needed a working box. Now. [Licensed!] Windows in 25
minutes, Linux in.. ahh.. still waiting after a few months.