Re: [ossig] IDC: Windows cheaper than Linux

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Bernard yap wrote:

> a good admin automate their routine jobs, and anything that can possibly
> be automated. GUI probably won't be very useful, while it would be more
> convenient to have a one-liner at the shell invoking pre-written script

spoken like a true engineer. unfortunately, true engineers do not run
companies. phbs require nice pointy clicky interfaces to show off with.
while a cadre of shell, perl and tk/tcl scripts would be a whole lot more
powerful and flexible, you can't take that to the bank. not yet anyways.


> btw, many of the management tools we have on linux are of UNIX origin,
> that's more than 30 years of history man. what's immaturity?

in a phb world, maturity=ease of use.

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