Re: What so special about PostgreSQL and other RDBMS?

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1084636038.285336_at_yasure>...
> Howard J. Rogers wrote:
>
> >> And, to be quite blunt, if the only operating system it will run on
> >> is Windows that becomes a limitation affecting all of the above. Any
> >> time you database server is at risk from every 16 year old on the
> >> planet. It can't really be called secure or stable.
> >
> > Oh, I dunno. Stick it behind a firewall with some AV software and at
> > least keep it (OS and AV) minimally up to date, and it will do quite
> > reasonable service, and the script kiddies can be largely forgotten about.
> >
> > Regards
> > HJR
>
> And would you then ignore all of the security patches?
>
> If you don't ... you still need to at least once a month, likely more
> often, down your production database to apply them and reboot the
> server.
>
> For what possible benefit? I'm still looking for one thing Windows
> can do that, for example, Linux can't do ... except perhaps steal
> cycles from the CPU.

Be ubiquitous. (So far. :-)

jg

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