On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 22:21 -0500, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
That is exactly why Microsoft took virtually all Novell's business in a matter of about a year. Mircosoft treated a server as a software component, not an OS. They used what is called Client/Server architecture, where client components request services from server components. On their so-called "server" OS, they provided the same desktop that is available for their traditional end user OS. Anybody who believes they can compete with Micorsoft and not provide a usable, familiar desktop should get out of the software business today.
Client/Server has absolutely nothing to do with any of this. That design concept was around before Microsoft and has nothing to do with desktops or anything else in this discussion. A file server is a client/server design, and was used in the Novell servers Microsoft competed with And there are quite a few secretaries using linux on the desktop. In a managed environment, users don't see the configuration issues