RE: Open Source Security Comes Under Fire

Go figure. This was published on a ZiffDavis news site. ZD is either majority or wholly owned by Microsoft. Do you suppose there might be a bit of a slant there?????

Rodd Holman

On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 10:23, DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote:
> Patrice - Amazing how these things happen. A few weeks ago a report listed
> Microsoft products as among the worst security risks. Microsoft immediately
> attacked the report. Then by an amazing coincidence, an "impartial"
> organization releases a report stating that Microsoft's greatest competitor,
> the "free" people, are actually the greatest security risk.
> Somebody refresh my memory -- wasn't it the Aberdeen Group that Larry
> hired the private eye to get some proof that they were just shills for
> Microsoft, and the guy was caught dumpster diving?
>
>
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
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>
> FYI.
>
> <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,720533,00.asp>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,720533,00.asp
>
> Regards,
>
> Patrice Boivin
> Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
>
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