At least someone at EDS would appear to believe to the contrary?  See 
http://www.eds.com/services/casestudies/eds_instant.aspx

-- Bhaskar

-----Original Message-----
From:   [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Nancy Anthracite
Sent:   Thu 3/24/2005 3:59 PM
To:     hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc:     
Subject:        Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: (NEWS)EDS: Linux is insecure, 
unscalable
Well, I wasn't going to post this link, but since it is similar, I changed my 
mind.
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Linux riskier than Windows?

Companies face greater risks if they run their Web
sites on Linux rather than Windows, a Microsoft-funded
study has concluded.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5630822.html?tag=nl.e589

On Thursday 24 March 2005 01:42 pm, Crawford Rainwater wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:24 -0800,
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39184795,00.htm
> >
> >
> > "Large enterprises should not use Linux because it is not secure enough,
> > has scalability problems and could fork into many different flavours,
> > according to the Agility Alliance, which includes IT heavyweights EDS,
> > Fuji Xerox, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Dell and EMC. "  (more)
>
> <rant>
>
> Hmmm, consider that Microsoft is involved in a study that is finding its
> results against Linux...can we say perhaps slightly biased!?!
>
> Throw in Sun with Solaris, though they are moving towards Open Source
> avenues recently...
>
> EMC is oriented to UNIX and M$ based...
>
> Dell...well, they only resell with M$ on board...
>
> EDS as consultants...oops, that is a contradiction I think. ;-)
> </rant>
>
> FWIW.
>
> --- Crawford

-- 
Nancy Anthracite


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