I have recently migrated a customer from solaris to windows 2000 master
/media server pair due to license and server cost.

Bottom line - Its cheaper because its not as good a platform. 

We've had to add unix command line tools and perl to manage and report.
Were continually tuning to try and make it work reliably, and also to get
the most performance out of the drives attached (lto-2).

I would personally prefer the linux route - you have a rich command set on
the platform, and it costs the same for nbu on linux as windows.

Regards
Mark


On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Paul Yahnig wrote:

> Hello all.  I am currently running NBU 4.5 under Solaris 9.  I am going to 
> be moving to NBU 5.0 later this year.  When I make the move, I am going to 
> be going to a Windows 2003 platform for the server.  This is not by 
> choice, but the powers that be want to move from away from Sun and move 
> towards Linux or Windows.  The linux option was tempting, but there were 
> things that would have been missed on the feature side. 
> 
> I am trying to find out if anyone here has used NBU 5.0 and Windows 2003 
> yet, and if so, what are your thoughts on it?  Am I getting into something 
> that I will regret?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
> 
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