On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 06:34, JoeHill wrote: > On Sun, 09 May 2004 06:04:48 +1000 > Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: > > > http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8562 > > Well, if there's another way for MS to make money, what do you expect? They > certainly have never demonstrated even one iota of ethics or consideration for > their customers. > > ...as described in an article I tried to post earlier, but seems to have not > gotten through: > > "Dealing with widespread worms like Sasser raises the cost of using Windows, a > research analyst said Wednesday. > > Mark Nicolett, research director at Gartner, recommended that enterprises boost > spending on patch management and intrusion prevention software to keep ahead of > worms, which are appearing ever sooner after vulnerabilities in Windows are > disclosed. > > ___This is part of the carrying cost of using Windows,___ said Nicolett. ___The cost > of a Windows environment has gone up because enterprises have to install > security patches very rapidly, deal with outages caused by secondary problems > with these patches, and deploy additional layers of security technology.___ " > > Link: > > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6966
...which is more proof that the TCO of Windows is incredibly higher than that of FOSS/GNU linux stephen kuhn - owner ============================== illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thus spake the master programmer: "Without the wind, the grass does not move. Without software, hardware is useless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
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