On Thu 21 Aug 2003 04:51, Adam Williamson posted as excerpted below: > On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:43, Buchan Milne wrote: > > Leon Brooks wrote: > > > That's a bit short, it's a useful migration tool. > > > > IMHO, no, it's a crutch supporting your use of Windows. > > Shortsighted. For a personal user, migration can be a short term thing. > For a decent sized company, it's very, very unlikely to be; a migrating > environment will very likely be a mixed environment for a reasonable > length of time. In this environment, such a driver makes sense to smooth > the transition process.
Actually, no, it doesn't, in any "decent" sized company. Such a company shouldn't be doing dual-boots for the security reasons already hashed out in the thread. If they aren't doing dual boots, then all the data is either on a single-boot computer environment, where this shouldn't be needed, or on a network, where network access will be used instead of local disk fs drivers. There's no case for dual boot in the "decent" sized enterprise, except possibly in experimental non-production environments without any critical data on them anyway. Rather, it's the SOHO sized businesses, where essentially every employee with access is trusted and a dual boot system is therefore a manageable risk, and in non-business consumer installations, that a driver such as this might make sense. OTOH, one only has to look at the number of big companies that had serious problems with slammer and blaster to know what should be done from a security perspective and what is REALLY done are often two VERY different things.. How someone can spend $1000 on the core OS software license alone for an MSWormOS server (accurate call in this case), and not spend the $50 bucks for a simple NAPT based security appliance, or a few hundred $$ for something a bit fancier and higher capacity if necessary, to protect that investment, is beyond me, but it's obviously a common practice. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
