On Saturday 01 February 2003 11:26 pm, andre wrote: > On Saturday 01 February 2003 16:00, Buchan Milne wrote: >> On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Leon Brooks wrote: >>> And from Unix (SFU - Services For Unix, GPLed(!) software to supply >>> many of the Unix services and features still absent from Windows).
>> And they still complain about the GPL? > They bought the company which made it and some closed software and the > closed stuff is almost useless without the GPL stuff Serves 'em right. The point is, on one hand they *sell* GPLed software, and on the other hand they tell people not to. Hypocrisy. >>> The BorgDrake tool? Plug CD into drive, boot, install Mandrake as >>> server, suck all available Windows servers dry and emulate them? (-: >>> Hey, look, a Linux box with Port 1433 open! :-) >> Or rather, "What are we going to do now that we have all these MS SQL >> boxes to patch?", "Don't worry, we installed latest Mandrake and it >> migrate our dbs to postgres, we don't even have to patch, just migrate >> the rest, we're running drakpxe now to setup remote network installs". > postgres needs patches to. You can apply those to source, which means you can check them, be more selective, and mix patches if necessary. Closed source doesn't permit that. Also, PostgreSQL seems to have suffered far fewer security faux pas (francophones: any idea how I pluralise that?) than MS-SQL-Server. Cheers; Leon
