Re: SQL Server Worm devastates Microsoft Corporate networks!

From: Simon Cooke <simoncooke_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:09:10 GMT
Message-ID: <qxtZ9.110$Wu1.16901@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>

RonB <ronb_at_blizz.34sp.com> scribbled:

> Simon Cooke wrote:
>
>> Most software developers aren't going to care about patches to SQL
>> Server -- especially if they don't use it, or are not running a
>> site. As far as they're concerned, it's just a part of their dev
>> system, and one they don't look at too often.
>>
>> *That* is why it caused problems for MS.
>
> Bottom line, M$ didn't take care of the SQL patch in their own house.
> And you think other corporatins have more WNDOZE expertise or time for
> patches than M$?

Bottom line, Linux is a minority OS whose userbase pales in comparison to that of Windows.

The trouble with "bottom line" statements is that they're intended to shut down the debate by setting up a statement on a pedestal.

Bottom line: There's lots of SQL installations being used by Windows software developers - and Microsoft has plenty of those people working there - which are not under the care of a system administrator. As the developers don't perform the same level of care and feeding, the patch doesn't get applied.

Solution? Windows Update should check for it. But hey, you start doing that, and people complain that you're a monopoly. (Which is why, for example, Office Update isn't done through Windows update).

Simon Received on Tue Jan 28 2003 - 05:09:10 CST