[16693] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: CiscoSecure NT vs CS UNIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Fri May 8 17:12:06 1998
Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 17:06:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Eric Germann's message
of "Fri, May 8, 1998 13:08:57 -0400"
regarding "RE: CiscoSecure NT vs CS UNIX"
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Reply-To: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
[ On Fri, May 8, 1998 at 13:08:57 (-0400), Eric Germann wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: CiscoSecure NT vs CS UNIX
>
> Also, if you're looking for a Radius solution to interface with a real
> relational db, NT works out a LOT cheaper than Sybase or Oracle on Unix.
I don't know of anyone building their own Unix based solution who would
bother to buy a commercial RDBMS when there are ample and appropriate
freeware options. That goes double for anyone using one of the *BSDs,
even that commercial one....
(I still don't see how NT could possibly be cheaper than Unix in any
case -- the NT server license alone should pay for quite a few
consulting hours [you shouldn't need a top level expert -- maybe even
just a good co-op student] if you don't already have in-house systems
programmer(s)....)
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Greg A. Woods
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