Re: M'soft CD topartners about Competing with Linux

2001-10-02 Thread Mike Andrew
On Thursday 27 September 2001 18:10, Zoki wrote: Reliability Linux is being used for simple tasks such as file/print and static web page serving. Microsoft customers are using Windows NT Server for demanding, high performance, mission critical applications such as messaging, data

Re: M'soft CD topartners about Competing with Linux

2001-10-01 Thread burns
On September 30, 2001 11:17 pm, Kurt Wall wrote: Chang wrote: % you were taklomg about damages from within? well... what can I say... % % Relying on a firewall alone is not security to any kind of professional % industry standard. Unfortuantely, it is a v ery common configuration. No,

Re: M'soft CD topartners about Competing with Linux

2001-09-30 Thread Chang
you were taklomg about damages from within? well... what can I say... Relying on a firewall alone is not security to any kind of professional industry standard. Unfortuantely, it is a v ery common configuration. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get

Re: M'soft CD topartners about Competing with Linux

2001-09-30 Thread Kurt Wall
Chang wrote: % you were taklomg about damages from within? well... what can I say... % % Relying on a firewall alone is not security to any kind of professional % industry standard. Unfortuantely, it is a v ery common configuration. No, what Burns meant (if I may) is that far too many

Re: M'soft CD topartners about Competing with Linux

2001-09-30 Thread Kurt Wall
Kurt Wall wrote: % [snippety...] % packet sniffers won't catch clear text passwords because their aren't Oops: s/their/there/ [...snip] % some electronic equipment of the Maginot line that airplanes can fly Geez: s/equipment/equivalent/ Kurt -- Let us treat men and women well; Treat them

Re: M'soft CD topartners about Competing with Linux

2001-09-27 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:40:36AM +0200, Zoki wrote: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-08-23-014-20-NW-MS An excerpt from the CD: Reliability Linux is being used for simple tasks such as file/print and static web page serving. Microsoft customers are using Windows NT Server for

Re: M'soft CD topartners about Competing with Linux

2001-09-27 Thread Chang
Security issue is not 100% related to reliability. If your sql server is behind a good firewall, everything should just be fine. We really need some big linux shops that runs mission-critical apps. Google.com is a good example, but it's not doing accounting kind of stuffs which required

RE: M'soft CD topartners about Competing with Linux

2001-09-27 Thread Tom Wilson
Chang wrote: [schnipp] We really need some big linux shops that runs mission-critical apps. Google.com is a good example, but it's not doing accounting kind of stuffs which required extreme precision and reliability. [schnipp] IBM converted the whole Swedish, I beleive, or maybe it was

Re: M'soft CD topartners about Competing with Linux

2001-09-27 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:12:29 -0400 Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Chang wrote: | [schnipp] | We really need some big linux shops that runs mission-critical apps. | Google.com is a good example, but it's not doing accounting kind of | stuffs which required extreme precision and