I just helped a friends small company put in a linux file server. We really
weighed win 2000 server vs. linux
We went with Linux for 2 reasons, cost and security
money is tight w/ his company right now, and what was expensive were the
client access licenses (CALS). (it really annoyed me to have to pay money for
one computer to talk to another)
as for security my friend is a little paranoid about security and does read
the tech news and sees the MS security holes posted everyday. He really liked
it when I explained to him that open source software gets tested more nad
when a hole is found a fix is available almost immediately, or you can fix it
yourself (wish I was that smart)
BTW I remember someone on the list saying their company encourages open
source software and demands it for anything security related, who was that?
they had a great explanation of why they did it that way.
--Seth seth@hollen.org
Lottery: The excitement of bad math.
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