The discussion about using or not using NT is getting really boring.
For me it is like the anti-tabagist movements. When you buy a cigarrete pack it
is written in big letters that the use of tobaco can cause, amont other
diseases, cancer. When you see at cigarrete adds you can read the same
information, when you hear the cigarette adds in the radio, you can read the
same information, so if you use tobaco, you KNOW that you can get cancer.
The same happens with MS Windows NT: everybody knows that the OS is plagued
with horrible bugs, that there are several important misconceptions in the
design of the product, that is is really extremelly fragile to very very simple
attacks and so forth.
When someone or some group of people decide to use MS Windows NT/98/95 and the
related products as base of company Information Systems, THEY KNOW what they're
doing.
When someone buys something from companies that use MS Windows NT/98/95 and the
related products as base of company Information Systems:
1st: They MUST be informed about that, in order to decide if their money is
going to a company that can fullfill its obligations. For instance, I'd never
put my money in a Bank where the Internet Banking is based in Microsoft
products unless the insurance policy of the bank is really good.
2nd: If warned, then the problem is a customer's problem....
Whith firewalls, the same happens: if you put your cards in a system that is so
fragile that can be plaged by viruses... Well, it is none of my business !!!!
Best regards,
Casimiro Barreto
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