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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. > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. -- Best Regards Ken Shields Home phone: 905 404-2062 Bus phone 905 725-1144 (326)
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