This is yet another article written by someone that is, and always has
been an M$ user and has NO experience using *nix in any sort of a
practical or production manor at all.
I know this from the 4th paragraph, which looks like it's the first
supporting argument after Mr. Mullen's thesis.
<snip>
Not that IIS hasn't had its share of issues; it certainly has. But so has
everything else out there. Every operating system and every Web server
application has had security holes, and they will have them in the
future.
</snip>
Now if memory serves me right:
Remote root exploits in apache since it's creation: 1 (1.2.x, remember?)
Remote root exploits in IIS in the last year: 3? 4?
Number of virus targeted at apache since it's creation: 0
Number of virus targeted at IIS sine it's creation: n
> 'One thing is for sure: If you've got an admin that can't secure a
> Microsoft Web server, then your chances of having them secure a Solaris
> installation will be slim.'
Okay, no one is going to disagree with this, but if you want a secure
system there is a lot more to it then just the admin. The key point being
that if it's open source system, YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. If you are
using M$, the best you can do is pray for a quick patch that won't break
things even more than the virus did. It's out of your control.
Remember service pack 2, NT 4.0? It was the hotfix for the horrible errors
they made in service pack 1, but they broke even more than the fixed.
What's the quote from "Ghost World"? "It was so bad, that it was funny
again, and then it wasn't."
Cheers,
sach
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Lorin wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22132.html
>
> Critical to gartner groups advisory to switch away from M$ products. I'm
> not sure i agree with most of his points about how it doesn't matter that
> much which system you use, but the argument towards the end was
> interesting:
>
> 'One thing is for sure: If you've got an admin that can't secure a
> Microsoft Web server, then your chances of having them secure a Solaris
> installation will be slim.'
>
> -Lkb
>
>
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