Re: Gartner Group: DO NOT USE IIS!

Agree whole heartedly....
Ken
Dennis Lovelady wrote:
>
> Hi, all:
>
> Quoting Gartner
>      To protect against Nimda, Microsoft recommends
>      installing numerous patches and service packs on
>      virtually every PC and server running IE, IIS Web
>      servers or the Outlook Express e-mail client. As
>      the earlier Code Red worm showed, many servers and
>      PCs running IIS Web server processes may not be obvious
>      since they may be run as personal Web servers on the
>      intranet but still be exposed to the Internet.
> End quote
>
> Ummm... I have a slightly different suggestion.  For those applications
> where AS/400 may not be a good fit, or may just be too expensive to
> implement there....
>
> Why patch MS to make it kinda-sorta reliable for the next few minutes?  Why
> use MS at all?  Why does our user community and those who make the
> decisions even CONSIDER putting up with the expense and problems of
> trouble-prone MS products?
>
> All of this stuff and much more is available for Linux and other flavors of
> Unix, and at prices that should scare the dickens out of Macro$loth
> (frequently $0.00; invariably less than MS).  Also, have those
> decision-making people not been watching the salary costs of MS "CEs" vs. a
> good System Administrator on ANY other platform?
>    Number of unix systems impacted by IIS threats: 0.
>    Number of unix systems impacted by the Code Red virus: 0
>
> Dennis Lovelady
> Accenture
>
> "Norm Dennis" <wmss@iinet.net.au>@midrange.com on 09/26/2001 09:20:16 AM
>
> Please respond to midrange-l@midrange.com
>
> Sent by:  midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
>
> To:   <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> cc:
> Subject:  Re: Gartner Group: DO NOT USE IIS!
>
> This is a link to The Australian:
>
> http://australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,2937520%5E442,00.html
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Schenck, Don" <Don.Schenck@pfizer.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 September 2001 20:56
>
> Anyone else see the article in which it quotes the Gartner Group as saying
> companies should abandon IIS as quickly as possible?
>
> As a Windows developer ... lemme tell ya ... truer words have never been
> spoken.
>
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