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Remote Windows System Administration with Linux

Can a Windows sysadmin function from a Linux desktop? According to Simon Gerber, a consultant working in Australia, the answer is "yes". Read Simon's article, Ubuntu On The Business Desktop about using Ubuntu Linux for more.

Simon works "as a consultant in a Windows-centric work-place," where he and his co-workers "remotely administer Windows servers. We trouble-shoot Windows clients. We keep spammers out of our Exchange servers. We defrag. We update. We install antivirus programs. We eliminate spyware." Simon doesn't claim Linux is perfect, but he's been happy using it to get his job done. More revealing is that he'd been using Linux at work for over a month and half before his boss realized it.

The key to Simon's success is interoperability: Linux supports all the necessary open standards and is sufficiently interoperable with Windows and related proprietary standards, that it is possible to successfully remotely manage Windows servers. I wonder whether there are any Linux system managers who prefer to do their work in Windows?

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