On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Mark Wendt <wendt.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Le 18/09/2012 11:23, Mark Wendt a écrit : > >>> > >>> yann > >> Well, that's kinda where M$ ran into a lot of security problems, > >> trying to support legacy applications. I'd much rather take the > >> Unix/Linux approach, and have to recompile and rebuild, than spend > >> weeks hardening a system just to keep a 15 year old piece of software > >> working "like it used to." > >> > >> Mark > > > > well, from an admistrator point of view, I of course agree with you. > > But from the lambda user point of view, this is more another difficulty > > to turn to linux than something good, I think. > > Add this + the constant changes in desktop environnement like the one we > > where talking about, and you got something quite repulsive for newbies. > > It all depends on what you are used to in that regard. M$ is no > slouch when it comes to changing the look, feel, and workability of > the desktop. Look at the progression from Win98, to ME, to XP, to > 2000, to Vista, to Win 7 and now Win 8. It's not just from the > administrative point of view, it's from the user point of view. I > like my applications to run, to be secure, and have a safe, secure OS > wrapping the entire thing. Being able to recompile or load updated > apps so that they have the correct hooks into the OS so I don't have > to worry about a piece of legacy software that I like either not > compatible with, or works but not secure within the new OS is just > somewhere I really don't want to go. And that's from both an > administrative (which I do for a living) and a user (which I'm also) > point of view. > > Mark > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Got visibility? > Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. > Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? > http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > For me it is simple; If you want job security and a big system budget go with M$. If you want System security and a smaller job, go with Linux. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How fast is your code? 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219672;13503038;z? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
