I disagree completely here.. the managability aspect is
only prevalent on the desktop, not the server market (I
wont talk about the advances being made by Linux on the
desktop for this post though). Centralized managability
is actually single user pc managability for a windows
concept. Par NT, it wasn't meant to be really anything
more than a single user system for home PC's - so yah,
for single user systems, its pretty decently "managed
centrally". As soon as you get beyond this, to say its
easily managable seems a bit far fetched. Now I will not
say I have much experience (if any) with windows.. but
lets look at the "maturity" of these management features
the article talks about, and the "maturity" of Unix systems
in respect to "managing" systems. erm.. windows is far,
far behind the game in terms of "maturity" (in fact, its
vice versa as stated in the article). And if you look
at Linux which is now I guess 11 years old (quite young) -
hey, at least they didn't promote 5 years ago that they
got rid of all the 16bit code, and implemented some
memory management! - very mature thank you.

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Silvio

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