On 07/18/18 11:59, mark wrote: > Andrew Holway wrote: >>> > >>> In addition, if you go to 365, you are NOT BUYING the software, you're >>> renting the service. You will be paying every year, and a service >>> contract will cost, and, presumably, cost more every year. >>> >> >> Still a lot better than trying to run your own hodge-podge of nightmares >> on Linux. > > Beg pardon? Did I make a mistake on the email address? I thought this went > to the CentOS general discussion list. Well, I believe, the long and very polite Johnny's post suggesting OP to buy MS service was fundamentally correct. If the person possesses no UNIX/Linux knowledge, and not willing dive into learning that, yet has great urge to have/run server... well, MS is probably the most right place to direct such person to. Whatever one is not willing to pay for by one's time and effort, one will pay with money. You and I consider this list as last resort when we get stuck with technical problem, but some people consider it a first stop. And right answers depend on who is asking general advise in which direction to go, so I would recommend to OP (but not to UNIX/Linux person...) the same what Johnny had recommended. And I am the same shocked as you are by someone saying about his Linux nightmares. When said on this list that is. Valeri > > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++