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On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto wrote:
> 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.
>
The trouble is the MS tells people that that is not the case, everything
is rosy. and unless they are told of specific problems ofen do not believe
it.
> 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.
>
There is one internet manking company I know of who does run their systems
on NT (no not the oneI work for) I found out when we were talking with
them and made a comment about the horrible problems we were having with
AIX at that time (we had system crashes approx 1 machine out of 10
crashing in a month) they commented that they found that they had to
reboot their servers weekly "just in case"
David Lang
> 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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"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
happy."
- -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
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