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johnblommers · 10-05-2005, 01:09 PM

Originally posted by Cuddlywolf:

It seems that people think that going to an open source solution is easy and inexpensive. Even if MS is charing too much for their product, there are some reasons. More and more patching seems to be occuring on the open source systems because they are just as vulnerable (more so if the people don't know what they are doing) as microsoft. People that write virus's target the largest audience, opensource will have have a rude awakening if they ever become part of that target.

"Seem to think?" Massachusetts calculated that upgrading W2K to XP to accommodate Office 12 and its MSXML file formats would cost $50Million vs $5Million for a non-MS solution across 50,000 PCs.

As for security, name ONE Linux or Mac OS virus or worm. No, I'm not talking about some theoretical vulnerability, show me a real contemporary worm for Linux or Mac OS X That has cost the US Billions of dollars in lost productivity. You can't.

Poor Windows 2000 is not even safe. From August we had a terrible worm:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/interne...computer.worm/

My oh MY but we are in the weeds here. Perhaps the forum administrator might move this tread to the Coffee Shoppe.

As an aside, I have cleared off ALL my desktop icons so I can view the beautiful Marine Aquarium screen saver without ugly icons covering them up.

10-05-2005, 01:09 PM	#260
johnblommers The Architect Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 756	Originally posted by Cuddlywolf: It seems that people think that going to an open source solution is easy and inexpensive. Even if MS is charing too much for their product, there are some reasons. More and more patching seems to be occuring on the open source systems because they are just as vulnerable (more so if the people don't know what they are doing) as microsoft. People that write virus's target the largest audience, opensource will have have a rude awakening if they ever become part of that target. "Seem to think?" Massachusetts calculated that upgrading W2K to XP to accommodate Office 12 and its MSXML file formats would cost $50Million vs $5Million for a non-MS solution across 50,000 PCs. As for security, name ONE Linux or Mac OS virus or worm. No, I'm not talking about some theoretical vulnerability, show me a real contemporary worm for Linux or Mac OS X That has cost the US Billions of dollars in lost productivity. You can't. Poor Windows 2000 is not even safe. From August we had a terrible worm: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/interne...computer.worm/ My oh MY but we are in the weeds here. Perhaps the forum administrator might move this tread to the Coffee Shoppe. As an aside, I have cleared off ALL my desktop icons so I can view the beautiful Marine Aquarium screen saver without ugly icons covering them up. Reasons people don't watch Star Trek: 60% - It’s for nerds. 39% - The show’s stupid. 01% - My parents were killed by Klingons and it's still too painful.