Wouldn't this be a good reason just the shear numbers of hackers working against MS
platform not to us it. I haven't heard of any other platform that has been targeted
using VB like
what happened with the I LOVE YOU script through the address book.
The fact is that there are now other OS's to choose from. MS is going to loose market
share. Java applications (I thought Allaire was working on CF Java) will move away
from MS OS
platform. The writing is on the wall.
Richard Fantini wrote:
> I'm certainly not a M$ fan, but that's not even close to a fair statement.
> All software has security holes, it just so happens Mac servers are
> relatively unpopular compared to NT and therefore are not an attractive
> target for hackers. It's far more difficult to find security holes if only
> a handful of people are looking for them... IMO...
>
> -Rich
>
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> Subject: Re: Will the last person leaving Cold Fusion please turn out the
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> > The Mac is dead as a server platform? While obviously not as popular as
> > NT/2000, Mac servers suffer none of the gross security holes that NT/2000
> > has. Remember that the US Army has decided to move towards the Mac web
> > server system for those same reasons.
> >
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> > Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.
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> > "Reuben King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Abe V. S.
> > >
> > > If I was going to go for a non-CF solution, I'd look to Java, Perl, PHP,
> > > JSP, et al.. Web Objects is dead as dead and the Mac as a server
> > > platform... well, I won't go there. 99% of the rest of the IT world
> > > wouldn't go there either.
> > >
> >
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