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I don't have experience with Red Hat. My experience with MS is improving quickly. The announcements now come fast and the Windows Upgrade process is easy. That's a desktop perspective, but I do have SQL Server running locally, and so far, so good. When the Love bug hit the wires, we had some serious problems here. Since then, our IT department has become not politely but strenuously insistent, to the point of Draconian measures when needed to get the attention of the droid owners. Hopefully, everyone has gotten the message that security is a serious business issue. But have they? Here is the kind of thing that frustrates the IT folks: "It's no secret that the advantages of upgrading operating systems or application software has diminished quite significantly over the last few years. If you look back over history, there were great advantages from one release to another. You just don't get that anymore. You just don't get the bang for your buck switching from 2000 to XP. --Toni Duboise" It's just dead wrong and spreading the idea contributes to the problems by insisting there is no value in getting a better operating system. XP is waaaay better than 2000 and one can see that easily by dropping some more RAM into the machine and watching what happens. Security is better but not perfect. There is something to be said for killing Outlook Express whereever one finds it. Scripting inside mail systems is a bad brew. So part of the problem is the old legacy not having been fully patched, part of it is competence in that sloppy code gets released, part of it is institutional in that sloppy code isn't discovered early enough, part of it is architectural in that the trade offs of ease and security aren't fully understood and implemented, and part of it is cultural, in that the web culture has yet to mature to the point to realize the deep nature of its interdependencies and the folly of unsavory or ill-informed opportunism. Everyone is learning. We need to encourage collboration on solving these problems, learn to improvise and work together quickly, and stop stomping on each others lines or riffs just to get more of the spotlight on ourselves. A theatre troup banishes an actor who does that and any technician that helps them. A jam band beats them up. ;-) len From: Rick Marshall [mailto:rjm@z...] that's why i primarily use windows 2000/xp and redhat linux distros - redhat in particular is very fast at getting fixes out - so they obviously recognise the problem from a business perspective. ximian has an alternative that is almost as good. microsoft does the job, but i find it's response a bit patchy although i haven't done the stats. basically i watch the announcements from cert and then how long to get a fix from the vendor.
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