Thinking of dumping Microsoft for Open Source? This ZDnet article talks about what questions you should ask Microsoft when they try to pull you [back] over to the "dark side":
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39157635,00.htm An interesting excerpt from page 2: "A recent report published by Forrester Research calculated how quickly Microsoft issues patches after vulnerabilities are found in its software, and compared this to the performance of Linux vendors. Forrester found that Microsoft was much quicker at releasing fixes than Red Hat, Debian, SuSE and MandrakeSoft. Click here to read a .pdf of the original Forrester research, and here to read the response of the Linux vendors. If Microsoft cites this as proof that Windows is a more secure option, you might point out that 67 percent of Microsoft's vulnerabilities were classified as high-severity, compared to 56 percent for Red Hat. Or, you might ask: How many of the viruses that have hit the Internet this year have taken advantage of vulnerabilities in Linux?" ** I think the article means worms and not viruses, but off hand the last worm I heard about for any Linux distribution was actually a problem in a Apache, which was fixed rather quickly. Further, the number packages in a typical Linux distribution are far larger than a Windows system fully loaded with all of Microsoft's products (i.e. Office, Visio, Visual Studio, sExchange, IIS, etc). Mark -- Mark C. Ballew [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sublinear.net http://markballew.com PGP: 0xB2A33008 AIM: pdx110 "I wish those people just would be quiet," -- Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, complaining about computer security researchers.
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