On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:25, Bill Campbell wrote:
A more obvious question is why they're running mission-critical
applications on Windows in the first place!
They may not be. The people that write these articles sometimes do not
have the full story and occasionally are clueless, themselves.
Traditionally, DoD would employ Unix systems such as Solaris on command
& Control and other mission-critical systems, while Windows would be an
option for general desktop systems. What they may be referring to is the
shutdown of their general use (MIS) WAN, rather than Operational
Information Systems.
I wouldn't know either way. It's laughable, in either case.
All I can tell you is that the 5 companies that I visited yesterday afternoon, running W2K and WinXP, had their sys admins finishing backups early.
These people were also physically disconnecting the firewalls from the external routers, DSU/CSU, T1, ISDN circuits in anticipation for Saturday's ping fest at MS.
You should have seen some of the looks I got when I told them the same thing just before leaving,
"Don't you wish you were running Linux right about now? "
Hell, I even had an expensive pen thrown at me for my trouble. ]:-}
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