| UNIX vs NT, which will be more beneficial to you? With their own strength and weaknesses, both UNIX and NT rely on available applications and customer preferences in order to determine which will have an absolute advantage at a given situation.
Below are opinions of industry analyst on the relative advantages of both systems. NT Strengths Multiplatform support -
Available on multiple platforms (x86 and Alpha)
- Porting to another NT version means a simple recompilation due to standardized API's
Standardization - All versions of NT share the the same API's and system calls that is controlled by a single vendor which is Microsoft.
- Most NT applications are multithreaded
Administration - Driven by relatively easy-to-use GUI utilities
- Standardized GUI
Strong ISV support - Large software library as a result of strong support of NT from software vendors
Client/Server Application server solution and NOS are offered out of the box UNIX Strengths Mature platform - Forms of Unix have been known for around 20 years
- Offer s a variety of software, development toolkits and utilities
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Abundant availability of free softwares, internet services are among one of them
- Available on nearly every hardware platform (from PCs and RISC systems to mainframes)
Large-scale directory services - Lacks a standard directory service however, products like NIS, NIS+ and DCE directory services integrate closely with the OS and offer Unix-specific schemas by default
Scalability -
Proven to scale in very large environments
- Applicable to hardware platdorms ranging from workstations to supercomputers.
Management - Managed at a very low level through a character-based interface, remotely accessing administrative functions becomes an easy task.
- X Windows is network-enabled, allowing remote access to any GUI utilities
- By using simple GUI interfaces, UNIX can be implemented in turnkey systems.
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