Re: Project Cascade vs Oracle 8i vs Samba?

jeremy_at_netcom.com (Jeremy Allison) writes:

>When they've finished it will have all the advantages (and
>disadvantages) of AS/U however - it will be for all intents
>and purposes a full PDC or BDC implementation. The downside
>is - tied to Microsoft code, no future NT5.x access (see the news
>reports on the AT&T AS/U lawsuit), client license fees, no
>source code etc. etc.
 

>Also, as all the filesystem meta-info with AS/U is kept in
>a spare database there will be integrartion issues (no
>integration with UNIX permissions) and (just as a guess)
>it will be *dog* slow :-).

If all you need is file service, look at Network Appliance filers (http://www.netapp.com/) which supports NT and NFS natively.

The performance is great and the mix of ACL and Unix permissions are smooth. The filer box can also be managed by NT tools.

If you need more services, jion Cascade early access. Even with all the overhead you may get a better performance than the NT boxes anyway plus you can consolidate many NT servers into 1 Sun.

Supak

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