Re: First Email of the Day (Re: OT: The Irony in It!)

<sigh>.. these flame wars look almost like a religious thing to me.

Let's embrace the diversity in OS's, DB's, programming languages, the various ends you can start peeling an egg at, software tools, etc.. Face it, anyone here really think he can make someone else go "hey, i'll quit using product X and switch to product Y! Just because some dude mentioned I ought to have my head examined for using product X" ?

I'm ready to believe some Unix variants are technically better than Windows. But if you're also thinking in business terms you'll know that the technical aspect often comes third place: after commercial /economical factors and development time factors. Unhackable? Anything can be hacked. Bugfree? You ever written and tested software yourself?

Really had to laugh at this poster:
>"Charlie
>"By 2005, it will become clear that Linux will become a Globally dominate
OS."

I remember Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Hitler having more or less the same thoughts.

I'll stick to Windows and SQL server: I wouldn't sell a single copy of my software system if I used anything else: it wouldn't be ready by now (would have to switch OS, DB, programming language, programming technique), AND I'd have to convince my customers to switch en masse too (maybe I could use some texts seen in this thread...)

So! by the time I'm the last Windows user do warn me if I last to see that day.

Peace,

Bas
"Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote in message news:3e3593f2$0$230$cc9e4d1f_at_news.dial.pipex.com...
> "a.s.j." <kali_at_xxxx.com> wrote in message news:3E357428.7142_at_xxxx.com...
> > hmmm...i give our IT more credit than that....we switched to linux
> > didn't we? on the other hand, IT heads who continue to use microsoft
> > products on the face of such problems sure do NEED to have their "heads"
> > examined, don't they (pun intended)?
>
> I take it you also advised them to stop using BIND when the
vulnerabilities
> in that were exposed, and Oracle 9i when you discover that a user with
> create session and create view privileges can trash the database beyond
> repair, or if they were a select only user then they could merely see all
> data within the db regardless of access privileges.
>
> This vulnerability - like Nimda has had a patch for a significant period.
> falling victim to it is not the fault of M$.
>
>
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> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> Audit Commission UK
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Received on Mon Jan 27 2003 - 15:39:59 CST