> Well this is not the case Daniel. I do have Unix experience. With Sun's
> version of Unix before it became Solaris, SunOS, with SCO Unix, with DEC
> Ultrix and another company who's no longer in business Convergent. I don't
> remember what they called it. I've used X-Terminals on my desktop before
> PC's became vogue. Shoot I even modified DEC's install script to support
> third party drives with Ultrix. Windows is everything Unix should be, easy
> to use, powerful... I think many so called 'Unix specialists' are just
> jealous that mom and pop from down the street can setup Windows in an
> afternoon and do everything that the specialists took 3 days to get running
> on Unix.
>  

Ah, you have ancient unix experience. Don't forget, Unix didn't stop evolving 
when you stopped administrating it. Setting up a Solaris box takes me under 30 
minutes of manual labour, that includes unpacking, phisical installation, DNS 
changes and connecting it to a network. My very experinced NT collegues still 
need about half a day to do the same. Of course these are avarages on about 200 
installs we do every year on each platform. This is all thanks to the much 
better tools we have on Solaris than there ever were available for SunOS 4.x. 
This is about the same for about every Unix on the market.

I guess the main issue is, what are you most confertable with. In your case, 
that is NT. So go for it. TSM won't stop you and W2K is quite stable, so there 
is no real problem, unless your site is huge, and you require more that 8 CPUs 
in your TSM server.


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