[SunRescue] Ok...newbie question...

[Mike Hebel]

Much as I'm sure that would work upper management is more than a little
over-zealous with the "move to NT" routine.  Furthermore the head of
Corporate IT is really pushing towards a homogonous environment.  She's,
according to other people here, never liked the fact that we have Unix boxes
for _anything_.  That alone is a strike against us in her world.

I made them an offer.  Buy all new NT workstations, software, server, etc.
and give all the Sun equipment to the Engineers and myself for home use.
That's my price for immediately going to NT.  I don't like that option but
I'd rather do that than have them push NT down my throat and
re-assign/resell all the equipment leaving us with no backup plan.  ('Course
this has nothing to do with me ending up with an E450 at home - nothing at
all. ;-)

As for having NT on the desktop - they have SUNPCI cards in the Ultra 10
boxes and are running NT workstation on them.  Not good for CAD work but
good for anything else.

I personally don't want to move to NT because of stability reasons.  I just
got the E450 stable from a long previous time of incorrect management.  (The
person who did the work is a nice enough person but not in-total an IT
person.)  There was a lot to clean up.  Things that had never been done,
things that weren't working, etc.  Besides - I only have to reboot my Sun
boxes when I want to. *GRIN*  (Or at least as long as the NT DNS up the line
doesn't fsck up.)

Mike Hebel


-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Brian Dunbar
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 3:45 PM
To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org'
Subject: RE: [SunRescue] Ok...newbie question...


Just curious . . . what we're doing here is giving all of the designers NT
workstations, then using a terminal program to X to the solaris systems,
which will be moving into my server room one by one and going headless ...
would that work for y'all?  That give 'em NT on the desktop, and access to
their email  . .

FWIW - it's a slow process and we could reverse direction if the designers
really wanted.

brian
sys admin

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Hebel [mailto:drone8of9 at crosswinds.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 4:02 PM
To: Rescue at Sunhelp. Org
Subject: [SunRescue] Ok...newbie question...

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What I need this for is I need to justify why we need to purchase another
Solaris workstation and the CAD software to go with it.  I need to know how
many of the CAD files are in the /storage directory on the server.  (They
would like me to start moving engineers to NT but I'm not willing to do that
yet - the NT version of the same CAD software, ExpertCAD, is not up to snuff
AFAIC.)

Anybody?

Thanks in advance!

Mike Hebel

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