“The world doesn’t run on Windows. Believe it or not, Microsoft
recognizes that-sometimes. The company’s Windows Services for Unix
2.0 (SFU) program tries to make peace between NT/2000 servers and
Unix servers. While not a complete success, it’s not entirely bad,
either.”
“OK, so how does it really work on the road? … On the Unix
side, we had Red Hat Linux 6.1 and Caldera eServer 2.3 running on
233MHz Pentium II boxes with 128MB of RAM. Besides working with
Linux, SFU also will run with Compaq’s Tru64 Unix, 5.0 or higher;
HP-UX, 10.20 or higher; and Solaris, 2.6 or higher. After a week of
testing, we found that SFU worked well within its
limitations.”
“We found ourselves wishing that we had a real
enterprise-management system. Frankly, neither Unix nor Windows has
one of its own that we’re happy with. For today-keeping in mind
that on the Unix side you’ll end up using traditional Unix
administration tools, and you’ll do the same on the Windows
side-SFU does a good job of providing a single path to
administering both operating systems from a single console.”