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FlexBeta: Novell SLES9 vs Microsoft Win2k3 in a Windows Network

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 24, 2004

[ Thanks to Gsurface
for this link. ]

With Novell’s recent release of their SLES9 server (Suse Linux
Enterprise Server), I decided to compare their new offering against
Microsoft’s Windows 2003 Server (Enterprise Edition) in a Windows
based network environment. Can SLES9 be a viable server solution as
an answer to using a Windows 2003 Server?

“This article will compare these two server products in a small
to medium sized Windows network environment. I will be using the
following categories: reconfigurability, basic administration
tasks, server tasks, file system performance, overall cost and
user/computer management. These are basic functionalities that
every network server needs to provide…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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