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  • RFlagg
    Confirmed User
    • Oct 2003
    • 128

    #1

    Can penguins eat crow?

    This made my day:

    Newham and Microsoft sign 10-yr deal

    One of the deciding factors for Newham in appointing Microsoft as its strategic partner was an IT audit and analysis carried out by CapGemini. Although CapGemini makes a big noise about being independent from Microsoft, the study was indeed funded by the software firm . One of the main conclusions of its research was that as well as being cheaper than OSS, Microsoft is more secure than the open source alternative.

    Open source vendors are currently experiencing more vulnerabilities and receiving more security advisories than Microsoft. In addition, Microsoft has made a substantial investment in further improving security levels with its Trustworth Computing initiative.


    you can read the full article here

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  • raymor
    Confirmed User
    • Oct 2002
    • 3745

    #2
    Although CapGemini makes a big noise about being independent from Microsoft, the study was indeed funded by the software firm .
    [QUOTEThis made my day[/QUOTE]

    So Microsoft hires someone to say that they are better
    than their competition, and that makes your day?
    Most sysadmins in the world speak volumes when they choose
    Linux or BSD over Microsoft without having someone PAY
    them to say what's best.
    You know what's really funny, though?
    While CapGemini was paid to say that IIS and Winblows
    are better than Apache on Linux, let's take a look at what
    software they choose to use for their own web server:
    [raymor@raydesk1 ~/sb/extra]$ HEAD http://www.capgemini.com/
    200 OK
    Connection: close
    Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 01:31:37 GMT
    Server: Apache
    Content-Length: 19241
    Content-Type: text/html
    Client-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 01:31:37 GMT
    Client-Peer: 63.99.237.57:80
    Client-Response-Num: 1

    We what do you know, Microsoft's paid mouth piece for IIS
    runs their own systems on open source software.

    Do you like YOUR crow with mustard or ketchup?
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    • RFlagg
      Confirmed User
      • Oct 2003
      • 128

      #3
      This specifically made my day:

      Open source vendors are currently experiencing more vulnerabilities and receiving more security advisories than Microsoft.

      I've been in IT for over 10 yrs, I know all about linux and BSD, I run a flavor of both. I'm not bashing them, or trying to blow sunshine up Big bills ass either...

      I am just tired of every thread about an IE exploit the same ppl post "Time to switch to Linux".


      as far as capGemini goes...They are an independant consultancy...of course MS paid for it...it was in thier best interest.

      and for the record...when did it become mainstream to run BSD on corporate workstations?

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