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PJ Connolly writes: I don't write code for a living, but I do know that programming is more art than science. Software is very much like a house of cards in that one false move can collapse the entire structure. But as a reader pointed out in response to some remarks I made in regard to IIS (Internet Information Server), when was the last time you heard of a virus taking out an AS/400, iSeries, or whatever IBM's calling it this year? Granted, there are a lot more Windows boxes out there than there are AS/400s, and like any predator, computer attackers go after the easiest prey first. This alone would seem a compelling rationale to find alternatives to Microsoft's computing platform, but whoever said humans were rational? The whole column is at: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/01/21/020121opsecurity.xml Scott Lindstrom
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