[mdlug] OT: Microsoft Monopoly

[Michael Rudas]

--- David Lane wrote:

> Recently I was informed that a Linux server is being replaced by a windows 2008
> server.  I started to think about “Microsoft Monopoly” case. MS must have a very
> good legal team.

The problem is not the "monopoly", it's the flawed perception that,
somehow, Windows severs are easier/cheaper/better than *nix servers.
The fact is that Internet-facing Windows servers are MUCH more
vulnerable to attack than Linux/BSD/Mac-based servers.  I don't have
the exact statistics in front of me, but from what I have seen, WAMP
servers (Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP) are more vulnerable than LAMP
servers, with the Win/IIS server stack the most vulnerable of all to
attack.  This means that Windows servers cost users TWICE (or
more)--once for the OS, once for the added security and (to a high
probability) even more to clean up the mess after a successful attack;
not to mention the down time needed to reboot the system(s) after the
endless cycle of updates (that often cause more problems than they
solve).

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