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Smithy I think you are merely a troll. You are the one who sounds like the fanatic round here, stick with the facts not opinions.

Benchmarks:
http://www.open-mag.com/features/Vol_66/TuxNET/TuxNET.htm

Pretty close to be fair, the other benchmark is obviously just a microsoft funded PR stunt. The didn't even run them on the same hardware for crying out loud. Would you accept benchmarks funded and run by RedHat engineers in their labs?

My debian post was hardly an excuse, it is a fact. Would MS admit a server hack? I don't refute the 'windows is more popular angle' at all. It is true.

You have side-stepped my opening question, what experience/understanding do you have of *nix? That level of virus propagation is impossible in Linux because only root has access to the necessary system files.

Linux servers are actually attacked far more than Windows servers, the majority of the net run Linux web servers and they are constantly attacked, though no code red or slammer has appeared for them, plainly and simply because Linux is an inherently more secure OS, all that integration in doze has just left it wide open.

2003 looks like some good moves from MS, but to use your own argument, so few sites actually run it, how can we tell? maybe its all that BSD code that MS admit that they have in there.

Nothing in your last post answered any of my points reagarding windows 2003 utter superiority in all categories, not a single thing at all, just noise no backing.

Show me how 2003 is more flexible,scalable resource efficient or secure. To think windows is as powerful as *nix convinces me you have never run, or learned a *nix OS, you couldn't say that if you had; its a fisher price toy compared to a formula 1 car.

Scalability - 2003 running on 32 processor 8Gb RAM machines is it?. NASA run redhat on theirs, why? It does it better and it also exists in the current Mars rover.Now that's scalability

Flexability. Can I run the latest windows on a P166 with 64MB RAM, nope, can I run the latest Linux/BSD, yup, I need to run the lighter desktops, but it has them and it is feasible. Can i access all other file systems in doze, nope. nix yup.

More secure. HA not!

http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article.php/3076071

You also flamed all slashdot users, the spirit of slashdot is an acquired skill, you'll find most anti-anything posts are modded funny, surf at -1 and you will see how much of the flamebait/trolling gets modded down and counter-acted. Though slashdot admits to being blatantly anti-microsoft,so what, intelligently anti-microsoft is encouraged, unfounded rantings are dealt with appropriately.

Thats all for now, come back with concrete specific examples and I shall entertain you somemore. For now I shall kick back convinced I have won on the production of evidence alone. Reminds me of a current law suit... but thats another story ;p

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