Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 11, 2007 07:50 AM
Once again, the MCSE rears its ugly head. I get a kick out of MCSE's like this poster, as he is clearly scared silly for his own job. I've seen plenty like that.
At my place of work, we *do* run Nagios on a rather large network. It is sweet, and it certainly didn't take "days/weeks/months" to get running right. It took me half a day...and virtually no maintenance afterwards. Oh, and we also run NMIS for history tracking. That took me less than an hour.
I don't use Sendmail, I personally prefer Postfix+Dovecot. But if you send email across the Internet, there's a 90% chance that it goes through some corporate Sendmail server. It took me about three hours to install, configure, *and* test my email server running Ubuntu GNU/Linux. So much for "days/weeks/months" to stand up a F/OSS server.
MCSE's don't know anything except point-n-click for MS Exchange and Microsoft Management Console. That's why this poster is so scared. When his MS Exchange Server tanks, he's got to call Microsoft to get him out of a jam for high dollar. We don't need to do that with F/OSS; we can--and do--fix it ourselves and keep stepping. That's what Freedom is about. Furthermore, F/OSS servers don't tend to tank nearly as often as those from Microsoft. And our data, unlike theirs, is in a freely-available file format. No vendor lock-in.
Have fun, little MCSE. You don't even know what freedom is anymore. When your MS Exchange Server corrupts your entire Information Store, thus putting you in the unemployment line, I'll be laughing my head off at you.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 11, 2007 07:50 AMAt my place of work, we *do* run Nagios on a rather large network. It is sweet, and it certainly didn't take "days/weeks/months" to get running right. It took me half a day...and virtually no maintenance afterwards. Oh, and we also run NMIS for history tracking. That took me less than an hour.
I don't use Sendmail, I personally prefer Postfix+Dovecot. But if you send email across the Internet, there's a 90% chance that it goes through some corporate Sendmail server. It took me about three hours to install, configure, *and* test my email server running Ubuntu GNU/Linux. So much for "days/weeks/months" to stand up a F/OSS server.
MCSE's don't know anything except point-n-click for MS Exchange and Microsoft Management Console. That's why this poster is so scared. When his MS Exchange Server tanks, he's got to call Microsoft to get him out of a jam for high dollar. We don't need to do that with F/OSS; we can--and do--fix it ourselves and keep stepping. That's what Freedom is about. Furthermore, F/OSS servers don't tend to tank nearly as often as those from Microsoft. And our data, unlike theirs, is in a freely-available file format. No vendor lock-in.
Have fun, little MCSE. You don't even know what freedom is anymore. When your MS Exchange Server corrupts your entire Information Store, thus putting you in the unemployment line, I'll be laughing my head off at you.
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