Well said Paul, and, I would like to point out that at the time MS became interested in Internet technologies, Macintosh servers accounted for 34% of all webservers, with the lions share going to various *nix platforms. That that has changed in favor of Windows solutions does not really mean that's the way things will stay. It changed before; It will change again.
OSX a threat to Enterprise server architecture? Only if Apple opens the OS to play on other HW or starts making enterprise servers. But, individually, they are finely crafted machines and generally ahead of the market on innovations. Discounting them out of hand (or habit) can make you look like the geek that propheted a fast death for Linux... -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hosking [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 2:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Justin Kremer' Subject: RE: Apple vs. MS - more secure? I think Apple should get an award. I can't think of anyone else in recent history who has better furthered the state of flame wars. Not only can we draw on "MacOS vs. Windows" but Apple has managed to include all the Unix guys too. Woohoo. :) All kidding (and potential flames, I hope) aside... On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 19:33, Bejon Parsinia wrote: > I think the comparison you are drawing is unfair because we are talking > about two OS' that are not even on the same playing field. MS is a HUGE > hacking target because of it's availability on the Internet. How many > websites do you know are hosted publicly on a Mac platform? How many > enterprises run Mac as a Server/Workstation solution exclusively? I would have to disagree on this point. In this day and age, the vast majority of desktop machines are online. And as various broadband services become more available and popular, these connections are 24/7. On reasonably fat pipes. Whether the platform is used as an enterprise server is an almost moot point (ignoring the question of whether WinXP is any more an "enterprise solution" than OSX). The fact is, these workstations are potential targets. They can become liabilities to the enterprise (or even the home user). Nimda and CodeRed points to well-known object lessons. A very large amount of the traffic/damage created by these worms were not from unpatched servers, but insecure workstations. If you network your machine, information security should be a concern. -- .: Paul Hosking . [EMAIL PROTECTED] .: InfoSec .: PGP KeyID: 0x42F93AE9 .: 7B86 4F79 E496 2775 7945 FA81 8D94 196D 42F9 3AE9
