OK Marco hear's my $0.02
for me I look at as hardening an operating system and then weakening it again by adding services! So lets deal with the OS first. If you are talking about Linux versus Windows then there is not much between them and I would go with your skill set. (If there was than i would doubt that you would be asking this question) If you have a training budget then you may wish to broaden your skills but you will not necessarily have the experience. you may find it better to use that budget to improve your skills. how much better can a certifies XYZ serve his company ( and his CV ;) ). On the other hand if you are talking about one of the more mature Unix variants or a specialty hardened operating system then they sell them selves OK weaking the system; you mention apache and iplannet, both of which are available for windows and Unix. So you real question is that of which web server to use. They all have their weaknesses and have all been compromised at some stage. What worries me is that you imply that imply that is you do not use IIS then you need some additional software in the middle (CORBA) to link to you application back end. That being the case you will be adding complexity and will have to do you own risk assessment. I doubt that this has given you the answers you wanted but i hope at least it has given you food for thought Julian On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 16:25, Mario Behring wrote: > Hi list, > > I have some websites running on Microsoft IIS on NT/2000 servers and I > have to justify a possible change to Unix servers running Apache or > IPlanet using CORBA. The reason is only one, more secure web servers and > more secure web sites. > > Can you guys give me your opinion and some arguments whether should I do > this change or not ?? Costs are not an issue here, please give me > technical and security arguments. > > Thanks in advance. > > Mario Behring > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free > http://sbc.yahoo.com > -- "J" Julian Young
