Imagine doing this on a big server cluster with 20+ machines. Geez....
Too true. Also for low budget networks that use say 64k ISDN, linux simply can't be beat. You can admin the servers over telnet or ssh because it has a proper comand line enabling you to complete such tasks easily via shell. In windows, you would have to do this via a gui which just seems to take for ever under windows. For instance consider changing permissions on say a 3gb Directory on a remote server. This can done easily via shell but via Gui it takes for ever. Should it fail part way through ( as it often does ) then the network permissons are stuffed meaning you then have to use terminal services to connect to the machine itself and try and fix them. If the ISDN link has continual traffic then this is not going to be fun and it will take lots of time. Time means money. To be serious with windows you need a fairly big connection to admin Win2k server remotly else it is just too frustrating. Trust me I deal with this very frustration daily
