On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 01:52:55PM -0400, dep wrote: >quoth Bill Campbell: > >| Hackers aren't the only thing that cause serious economic loss. >| The lost productivity waiting for Windows systems to reboot, even >| if there's no data loss, I did some rough calculations after >| reading an article that said United Parcel Service had about >| 160,000 Windows machines (bragging of course :-). Assuming that >| each machine had only one unscheduled reboot a day with no data >| loss, the cost for lost time per year was well over $10,000,000 USD >| (closer to 20M). > >i easily believe that. and it's an important issue. but it's also an >issue different from those who with malice seek to disrupt other >people's machines and the internet itself. as a friend once put it to >me, if you catch your wife in bed with another guy and you shoot the >other guy, you haven't solved the problem." and in any case, >microsoft has no incentive to tighten its system; nor, apparently, do >most windows users. neither microsoft nor windows is going away. >those who exploit flaws in windows are eating up *my* bandwidth and >sending crap to *my* mailbox...
Another factor to consider is that there's a triving industry that depends on Microsoft creating insecure, buggy software (e.g. Norton, McAfee, and the army of MCSEs required to deal with these problems). One of the prime problems we have going into a business saying we can save them a ton of money is that their IT guys figure it's their jobs we're going to eliminate if we replace the Windows systems with reliable, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, or other *ix systems. In addition to job security these MCSEs are afraid they might have to learn something more than the 3 Rs of Microsoft, Reboot, Reboot, Reinstall. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer (1891) _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
