Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

[Les]

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 10:05 +0100, Scott van Looy wrote:
> Today Tim did spake thusly:
> 
> > On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 01:09 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >> The problem is that so much of the system is opaque with undocumented
> >> 'features' that are just waiting to be exploited.  It's not that the
> >> users are clueless, it is that there is no way for them to have a
> >> clue.
> >
> > Hear, hear...
> >
> >> How many people know the minimal set of ports needed to be open  for
> >> Active Directory and Exchange server to work and what is supposed to
> >> happen on each, for example?
> 
> I pasted that into google and got:
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270836
> 
> as my second link
> 
> > Or how in hell to get MSN messenger to work through your firewall, or
> > any other number of things that you need to get to work with your
> > system, but come with no more information than an instruction to see
> > your system adminstrator (who has no information about it, anyway).
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q240063/
> 
> Most windows sysads know both, or are at least as capable as myself of 
> googling it... :)
> 
> 
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> knot in cables caused data stream to become twisted and kinked
> 
The first didn't answer Active Directory, and the second didn't answer
for the current revision of I.E.
Not so simple is it?

Regards,
Les H