RE: access as/400 database files w/Visual Basic 6

A free unix box can do Samba, OpenLDAP (for directories), RSync to
synchronize files across a network.  You can act as master to as many DNS
zones as you like (has there ever been a DNS server that couldn't?) Most
of the DNS hosted on the Internet is Unix... you just don't use Windows
for something that important.

Remote installation....  I upgrade FreeBSD to new versions all the time
from remote locations.   I can upgrade my machines at work from home,
which is really useful on the weekends when the machines are not being
used, but I don't feel like going in to work.   And as for installing
software... I can install ANYTHING from a remote location.  Like the
iSeries, I can telnet in and have full access to everything on the system.
I just tell it what software I want, it finds it on the internet,
downloads it, compiles if (if I ask it to build from source) and installs
it.   If the software requires any other software as a dependency, it will
also download and install that.

I'm not really sure what "Group Policy Objects" are.  If you're talking
about policies, like those edited with Windows policy editor, then you'll
find that any version of Unix (or pretty much every other operating system
besides windows) has better and more robust ways of doing security.  Only
on a Windows system would group security profiles be a "feature".

Support...  there are many companies that support Linux (including IBM, if
I'm not mistaken) and there are several that also support FreeBSD.
Certainly commercial Unixes like AIX and Solaris are supported by IBM and
Sun respectively...



On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Walden H. Leverich wrote:
>
> >How about avoiding that by going to Samba on some version, Intel or not, of
> >Samba?
>
> And Active Directory? File Replication? Remote Installation? Multi-master
> DNS? Group Policy Objects? And most importantly, support.
>