Re: Gartner Group: DO NOT USE IIS!

["Dennis Lovelady" <dlovelady@xxxxxxxx>]

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

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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.