Thought I'd post a transcript of the news story comments, in case anyone wants to reply to a comment made by someone there. Color-coded for readability
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#1 Posted by Kermit_The_Frog at 2:22am on the 18th February 2005
I love it the more we watch the more we will see that the so called super safe open source is nothing more nothing less its just software means its flawed.
#2 Posted by NetRyder at 3:44am on the 18th February 2005
As I have always felt, a competent admin can manage either one equally well.
IIS6 in WS2003 is actually far more solid than its predecessors.
#3 Posted by Johnny at 5:43am on the 18th February 2005
Hmmm .... When they say more secure, what security are they talking about ?? I have knoticed that 2003 crashes less than its predecessors, instead of twice a week it's down to only once ...
#4 Posted by NetRyder at 7:48am on the 18th February 2005
Uhh...WS 2003 crashing? Geez, even XP doesn't crash on me.
Netcraft rated Datapipe as the most reliable hosting provider for the whole second half of 2004 and Jan 2005. What do they use? Windows Server 2003.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/02/01/most_reliable_hosting_providers_during_january.html
We have a couple of Server 2003 machines that are being used as Terminal Servers for multiple users at a time. They just keep running. Our Debian-based web server also had an uptime of 342 days before a campus-wide power outage forced it to shutdown (yeah, we need a UPS).
I think Microsoft pretty much got stability under control after Oct 2001. You just have to make sure you use a good set of device drivers and stay away from junk software.
#5 Posted by desie at 3:10pm on the 18th February 2005
So why does 90% of the server market run Linux or BSD based servers?
Also I don't need Media Player or IE on my server thanks.
#5.1 Posted by Luna at 9:56pm on the 18th February 2005
They simply don't know any better.
#6 Posted by Joel (guest) at 7:24pm on the 18th February 2005
I think that the number of exploits depends largely on the availability of the exploited system.
Thus, on the one hand, exploits directed at end user computers are almost invariably directed at Windows. Get a large enough group of non-geeks running Linux and you'll get more Linux and Linux software exploits.
On the other hand, all the phish sites I see run, usually without the permission of the server owner, on Apache over Linux. And I get lots of phish and 419 spam that has been sent using a bug in the PHP Nuke nailing module running on Apache and Linux. (Do a groups.google.com search for "RLSP Mailer" and 419)
#7 Posted by Kermit_The_Frog at 5:50am on the 19th February 2005
90 % hahahahaha yeah ok I am sure its 90%