RFlagg

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.


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raymor

[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

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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