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   From: Richard Steven Hack    
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
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   On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:15:13 +0100, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:   
      
   > Richard Steven Hack wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:48:09 +0100, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:09:58 +0000, SINNER wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>  If you have a job and they have an IT   
   >>>> department, you can bet they spend more time at the windows CLI   
   >>>> than in a GUI app.   
   >>>   
   >>> You'd loose. Backoffice has a GUI in all versions.   
   >>   
   >> Ridiculous...   
   >>   
   > You don't seem to have taken notice of the original statement.   
   > "they *spend more time* at the windows CLI than in a GUI app"   
   > Indeed most of the time is spent monitoring the network in a GUI app, not    
   > writing scripts.   
      
   You don't seem to have taken notice of the facts: that whether a Windows   
   sys admin is spending more time in the GUI is IRRELEVANT to whether they   
   need to use CLI tools.   
      
   The fact that they ARE spending more time in the GUI is WHY they need to   
   be using CLI tools - to spend LESS TIME monitoring their systems.   
      
   I repeat: studies have shown that Linux sys admins can manage MORE   
   machines than Windows admins BECAUSE they do NOT use GUI tools much of the   
   time (although there ARE GUI tools available for Linux as well as for   
   Windows server management.)   
      
   The issue is not so much whether the tools are GUI or not, but whether   
   they can be scripted so that the sys admin can run them automatically on   
   multiple servers at once and receive the reports in a single place for   
   review.   
      
   By definition, any Windows GUI tool that only runs on a given host does   
   not meet these qualifications.   
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