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-----Original Message----- From: midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Jim Damato Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 7:33 PM To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com Subject: Gartner Group: DO NOT USE IIS! (from Midrange-L) Gartner says- "...enterprises hit by both Code Red and Nimda immediately investigate alternatives to IIS, including moving Web applications to Web server software from other vendors, such as iPlanet and Apache. Although these Web servers have required some security patches, they have much better security records than IIS and are not under active attack by the vast number of virus and worm writers. " They're saying both that other web servers are more secure and that IIS is under greater scrutiny from virus creators. What do you think? It seems like you can read this two ways: IIS is a more risky web server implementation because virus creators target it, or virus creators attack IIS because it's an easy target -- making it a more risky web server implementation. There's such a huge install base for Apache. I would have expected Apache to have been a victim of viruses/worms on the same scale as NIMDA by now. Do you think that Apache is significantly more secure than IIS by design? Why else would IIS be a target for virus or work attacks? >> Jim, >> I read it both ways... >> The M$ corporate culture brings these attacks on themselves, there's no doubt about that. >> Plus, the same corporate culture may, or may not, produce more buggy OS code. I can't really say for sure, not having used NT-based Windoze. >> Either way you read it, the iSeries should be making some inroads on the Apache server market (don't know whether they are...) >> jjt >> "Have a GREAT day, and a BETTER ONE TOMMORROW" (sm) -Jim James P. Damato Manager - Technical Administration Dollar General Corporation <mailto:jdamato@dollargeneral.com> _______________________________________________ This is the Non-Technical Discussion about the AS400 / iSeries (Midrange-NonTech) mailing list To post a message email: Midrange-NonTech@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-nontech or email: Midrange-NonTech-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-nontech.
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