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some people like gui's
"Everything I read had MS acknowleging they need to expose more of the OS to admins and remove the eye candy to be useful in real big iron production environments. Its very difficult to click 5,000 checkboxes at once but a 10 line scirpt does the same thing in a controlled fashion and is obviously a better approach than a GUI."

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No Surprise  mabricen | 04/02/04
That is, until the next lawsuit..  Delaware Boy | 04/02/04
I bet it's more than 10 years  StorageGuru | 04/02/04
I thought it was April's fool  dg mh | 04/02/04
NYeT might have a future in real computing  oldskool | 04/02/04
NYeT might have a future in real computing  oldskool | 04/02/04
Well....  NemesisNL | 04/02/04
In other news...  BitTwiddler | 04/02/04
The Sun is setting  Enterprise Analyst | 04/02/04
Perhaps you should look at where MS is going  oldskool | 04/02/04
Perhaps you should look at where MS is going  seosamh_z | 04/02/04
think enterprise not desktop ... its bigger than a lan  oldskool | 04/02/04
think enterprise not desktop ... its bigger than a lan  seosamh_z | 04/02/04
some people like gui's  V Sanders | 04/04/04
Is this the same MS as B4 EU ruling?  oldskool | 04/02/04
MS refesed to team up B4 Win3.11  oldskool | 04/02/04
Scott 's son???  mabricen | 04/02/04
it's all about the Benjamins  oldskool | 04/02/04
Totally agree  mabricen | 04/02/04
it's all about the Benjamins  seosamh_z | 04/02/04
You're all missing the point, is all about fighting IBM (NT)  Ardian Daka | 04/02/04
Bingo  rapson | 04/02/04
And ...  Ardian Daka | 04/02/04
Sun brings alot of credibility to MS's story  oldskool | 04/02/04
Depends on who you ask  Ardian Daka | 04/02/04
No, it's about OSS and startups...  techboy_z | 04/02/04
Correct, but ...  Ardian Daka | 04/02/04
it is all about getting there first  V Sanders | 04/02/04
but...  ryusen | 04/02/04
True  NemesisNL | 04/03/04
The Notorious Pretender.  systemcleaner | 04/03/04
"Peace In Our Time"  BanjoPaterson | 04/02/04
Very hard to believe  BruceWheelock@... | 04/02/04
Real reason for this hugh agreement  JJ_z | 04/02/04
If so  mabricen | 04/02/04
If so  seosamh_z | 04/02/04
followed you up until #4  oldskool | 04/02/04
You're making my point  JJ_z | 04/02/04
You're making my point  seosamh_z | 04/02/04
Sun competes on value and vision  oldskool | 04/02/04
Sun competes on value and vision  seosamh_z | 04/04/04
Actually, alot of developers get MSDN for free - who cares?  oldskool | 04/04/04
Sun is and always was a HW company  oldskool | 04/02/04
Reason 4A.  JJ_z | 04/02/04
Sun didn't need to licese UNIX from SCO .. they bought it  oldskool | 04/02/04
#2 and #5  NemesisNL | 04/03/04
It could be a win/win  oldskool | 04/03/04
Sun needs to get focus back  Rodney Davis | 04/02/04
A Great Friday Armchair Topic  Peter Komisar | 04/02/04
Seems odd  rapson | 04/02/04
Gotta give MS it's due....  quietLee | 04/02/04
ms loves the competition  V Sanders | 04/03/04
Scott admits defeat?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/02/04
That's the way I want to be defeated...  NemesisNL | 04/03/04
Microsoft did the same thing with Apple many years back.  B.O.F.H. | 04/04/04
This situation's a bit different  Mark Miller | 04/05/04
We got 2 billion dollars!  Chad_z | 04/02/04
And the way Sun is burning thru cash:  Stewart Cannon | 04/15/04
sun gets 1.5 bil from ms  V Sanders | 04/02/04
Why would Microsoft prop up Sun?  Anton Philidor | 04/02/04
Sun solves quite a few problems for MS if they want  oldskool | 04/02/04
Nope, Sun is de-emphasizing hardware  Anton Philidor | 04/03/04
ah, some people use c#, thanks  V Sanders | 04/03/04
Yeah, C# blows java away....  Stewart Cannon | 04/15/04
Sun is a useful ally  StorageGuru | 04/02/04
Still say the issue is Java.  Anton Philidor | 04/03/04
ms doesn't want anything to do with java  V Sanders | 04/03/04
J2EE support in C# one alternative, dump C# is another  oldskool | 04/03/04
b ut a lot of people use C#  V Sanders | 04/03/04
People still depend on MS Basic too ....  oldskool | 04/04/04
3 million Java developers  Anton Philidor | 04/05/04
April fool's day was yesterday.  zd-spam | 04/03/04
OOPS--- OOPS---April fool's day was two days ago.  zd-spam | 04/03/04
MS has NO chance gaining  michael-t | 04/03/04
No chance???? HA-HA-HA-HA  Stewart Cannon | 04/15/04
Sun the next AOL?  FilledOut | 04/02/04
Lets hope 1 billion in charity is enough  jimk_z | 04/02/04
ms can never win  V Sanders | 04/04/04
Firewall does not secure the applications on the machine  oldskool | 04/05/04
MS now owns Corel, Apple, SCO, AOL, Sun... who's next?  Michel Merlin | 04/03/04
ZDNET is next  Saxonborg | 04/03/04
if it wasn't for ms wanting to  V Sanders | 04/03/04
humm  alphaomega | 04/03/04
PeopleSoft, man...  Stewart Cannon | 04/15/04
A welcome surprise  Mark Miller | 04/05/04
Message has been deleted.  do not use linuxcad | 04/05/04
Does it mean Sun needs new chief of software?  do not use linuxcad | 04/05/04

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