microsoft claims

[Igmar Palsenberg]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Joe Gainey wrote:

> 
> Can anyone dispute these claims:
> 
> Microsoft Windows 2000 DNS vs. Bind 8.2
> 
> 1. MS claims they support for secure dynamic update based on the
> gss-tsig algorithm and bind does not.

Recent Bind versions do.

> 
> 2. bind does not support wins and wins-r records

Wins and wins-r had nothing to do with DNS. I don't see any reference to
these in the RFC. Samba supports both.
 
> 3. bind does not support utf-8 character encoding.

So ? As far as I know, it isn't oficially allowed.
 
> These are the claims.  Now I realize that thier comparison is
> with bind 8.2 and not 8.2.2p5.  The question is are the statements true
> for 8.2 and are they true for 8.2.2p5.
> 
> My gut instinct says that at least for 8.2.2p5 they are not true.
> 
> Here's the url reference (not you have to be running IE to see
> this page becuase MS has a javascript difference):
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/library/resources/reskit/samplechapter/cncf/cncf_imp_bdvd.asp
> 
> Joe

Most people at M$ are a bunch of idiots that like to brag on how good
their products are. The only thing their good at is ripping of standards,
give those a little M$ tweak, and make an open standard propretary. 

Nice example is the Kerberos standard.

I would just wish they spend time making their products better.



	Igmar