Regarding the coolness of Linux....

Hello Roman! 05 Dec 02 22:06, Roman Alexandrov -> All: RA> Operating Linux-based servers is more expensive than similar ones RA> Windows-based solutions [skipped] RA> The reason why Linux is more expensive in the long run RA> period, RA> is that this system is more difficult to administer This is not a fact at all. For some it is more difficult to administer Linux/Unix, but for others It's more difficult to administrate Windows. RA> and setting it up requires more time Not at all a fact. Suffice it to recall the “advertising company” of small software. When the anti-Union site "We know the way out of here" was hosted on FreeBSD. And then, when I tried to switch to Windows, it was unavailable for as many as _three_days_. :) RA> and more qualified personnel. This line is enough. If we take unqualified specialists and force them to administer Windows and Linux, then yes, in this case the above will be true. And if we hire qualified administrators for Windows and Linux, then there will simply be no talk about the complexity of administration and time. RA> As a result, payment costs, expenses, RA> associated with the selection of employees outweigh the lower costs RA> Linux acquisitions and relatively low upgrade costs RA> software and hardware. And in addition, there won’t be this advantage. And if we take a monkey and assign it as a Windows administrator, then the TCO for Windows will be EVEN less! What if we don’t hire an administrator at all? Windows - even cheaper! This is another “order” from small software in their “fight” against open sources. This time they decided to say that for the administration of Windows less qualified specialists are sufficient than for Linux administration. Which is complete nonsense. The administrator, no matter what OS he administers, must be a good specialist! Moreover, he is a specialist in this particular OS. And you need to pay him accordingly as a good specialist. Otherwise, we get what we have - small software servers don’t have patches that melkosoft itself released six months ago. Yes, it's cheap, and it works... until the first hacking attempt. Then we begin to count how much money we lost on that the site was not working, that important data had gone to hell. By the way, about the same “Windows admins” for the same thing "Computente" itself was an article. I don't remember the URL, name and date... It appears that anonymous login was allowed on the small software's FTP. And someone posted the file. ╒═════════════════════════ Home golded.txt ═════════════════════════╕─ RU.NETHACK (2:5030/675.50) RU.NETHACK ─ Post: 3844 out of 4047 From: Dmitry Leonov 2:5020/400 21 Nov 02 20:01:36 [skipped] Major leak of information about Microsoft users dl // 21.11.02 18:54 It looks like one of Microsoft's public ftp servers was used by company employees for storing internal information. In particular, archive dmail_11_04_02.zip, containing about a gigabyte of names and email addresses, and encrypted with the dbms password. However, it was much more interesting I would like to know what other files “with very interesting names” are there were. Source: http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,56481,00.html ╘═════════════════════════ End golded.txt ═════════════════════════╛ So this is what happened next: MS found out about this and immediately killed their server. They say we will fix it. After some time it was launched again, like “everything was fixed.” Here, one of the MS employees again posted some important file. And the people, happily rumbling and logging in as anonymous, began to pull him ;-) MS nailed the server again with a brilliant phrase "...the server has been closed for security reasons..." That is unqualified MS FTP server administrators were unable to just deny access to the server to anonymous users! And they were not able to correctly distribute access rights to everyone.And they made a brilliant decision - since they can’t do anything, then it’s easier to turn off the FTP server and that’s all... Needless to say, Windows monkey admins are cheap. But how much did this leak cost MS? Alexand