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To: Prognosticator who wrote (21619)	10/21/1999 9:07:00 PM
From: cfimx	Respond to of 64865

>>I'm an idiot<< you too? <g>

To: Prognosticator who wrote (21619)	10/22/1999 8:21:00 AM
From: John Mireley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

>Plus I always have to be physically present >at the machine to administrate it. I feel your pain. Maybe this link can ease it. www.uk.research.att.com/vnc It's made my life much easier. I can sit on my Sun Ultra and operate all of our clerical NT Workstations. We don't allow Windows 95/98 around here but it works with it too.

To: Prognosticator who wrote (21619)	10/22/1999 9:57:00 AM
From: Stormweaver	Respond to of 64865

Prog, I just enjoy making a case (especially on this thread!) for x86 + NT/Linux as alternatives to proprietary iron since I see that as a natural path; mainly due to price/performance benefits that soon IT departments must look at. I believe we'll see Linux + n-way x86 iron (open iron) as the up-and-coming server alternative to traditional proprietary iron and even MSFT NT. It's FREE, does file serving, print serving, web serving and even database serving quite nicely. IT departments can chose very expensive proprietary iron (most expensive option), MSFT NT (license for large amounts of users is 5-20K U.S.), or finally Linux (most cost effective option). Linux is a threat to both MSFT and SUNW and friends in the mid server market. p.s. My NT server 4.0 is dual-boot Redhat 5.2 Cheers James