On Wednesday 30 July 2003 01:46 pm, Sabin, Matthew wrote: > The bes arguments I've seen use the monoculture analogy from farming: > > If every farmer plants the same variety as every other farmer in a region, > they all get spectacular results, and the benefit of mass purchases to > lower the cost of seed and fertilizer, but when a bug or disease strikes > one farmer's crop, all of them get it and the whole region's crop is > destroyed. > > With an all windows house (or all Linux for that matter) one new exploit > and the whole system is in danger -- we're facing the need to patch over a > thousand machines this week because of a new windows vulnerability, and our > parent company has over 2500 in just one building! > > Adding Linux to the mix of a companies servers and/or desktops actually > helps them weather the storms better.
*** Good point > > --Matthew > > -----Original Message----- > From: Aron Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 4:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: Peaceful Coexistence > > On Wednesday 30 July 2003 12:06 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:21:09PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > > > Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > >Now, what I'm trying to get at here is this simple fact: Linux and > > > >Microsoft can get along - and get along quite well together. I went > > <snip> > > > Sorry for hijacking this thread but . . . > > ** You are not hijacking this will fit in just right with what promises to > be > **a very intresting thread > > > I need suggestions for selling folks at work (a technical college) that > > Linux should be part of our IT curriculum (especially the web > > development/e-commerce part). They want to keep everything Windows, > > .net, .asp, java; I'm not faculty but would like to point out the folly > > of a Windows-only approach. What can I cite (that is not hyper-biased) > > other than the Netcraft surveys showing over 60% of web servers run > > Apache? > > <snip> > > > Todd
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