Re: Windows Is Now More Secure Than Linux

From: Richard Atkinson (big@un.com)
Date: 07/31/02 

From: "Richard Atkinson" <big@un.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:01:05 +0100

Its not meaningless to make a purchasing decision based on security alone.

In the world of security as it stands at the moment, Acceptable Risk is the
best method to base these decisions on. Taking that approach I would still
argue that MS far outweighs *nix as the product of business choice.

Geek choice and paranoia are different Alun.

> The best that you can say right now is that it's meaningless to make a
> purchasing decision based on security alone - the security aspect is not
the
> over-riding issue that it once was, and you now have to consider it as
part of
> the whole picture (along with the old favourite "will it do the job I need
it
> to do").
>
> Alun.
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