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Story: Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists'
Posted by: Leon Brooks (Friday 8 April 2005, 12:45 AM)
Only software? It's only my livelihood Laura's trashing with her - at best - incompetence.
On one hand we have surveyors reporting a 50% rise in virus infiltrations over the last year, and on the other we have Laura and her fellow travellers assuring us that Microsoft has markedly improved their security.
Given that the number of probes hitting my own servers has risen, I have to say: it's not Laura.
You also plenty of other indicators to hand. About 3x as many web sites are run on Apache as on IIS. About 2x as many IIS sites are defaced as Apache. About 2x as many attacks arrive tailored for Apache servers, or at least so say my own logs across many sites. This tells you several things: crackers are much more interested in getting control of a Unix server; Apache-based (almost all Unix) servers are roughly 12x as secure as IIS.
Despite every PHB and his dog demanding MS Exchange as an email server, roughly 4/5 of the email servers fronting the internet are not MS Exchange. Yet which server makes the headlines regularly for suffering breaches?
I charge roughly 50% more than a typical MS Windows tech, locally, and get called out about one third to one quarter as often. My servers cost much less to procure and set up, too. My commodity Linux box running alongside the latest-greatest hardware-RAID dual-PSU Windows 2003 server is _more_ reliable.
These are arguments from experience, and local businesses of all size are not so much interested as fascinated by them. They are not two-steps-removed "studies". Call me biassed, but I regard them as far more reliable than the collective words of a bunch of PHB CXOs who often wouldn't _know_ what their sites were really running.
And to the nutjob who rang Alfred E Didio at 23:00 one night: don't. Say it to her politely, and in person. Or better still, say it to someone else: it seems to be all water off a duck's back to Laura, in terms of getting her to change. Upsetting her is not a worthy goal, waking her up and producing a positive change will only happen when besuited _others_ have told her enough times to smell the coffee.
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Story: Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists'
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Miss DiDio should grow a thicker skin.
She has rep... Gerard ter Beke -
Its the same old story: a research study is funded... Helen Trevish
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Same old story.
The Linux fanatics are easily the... Smithy
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In a large population there's a reasonable ch... Richard Corfield -
I wonder on what planet Smithy lives.. The st... Linux Convert
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As a brainless Linux extremist who found out... John D. L. Platt
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I agree that abusive language and calling som... Anonymous
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Laura Didio has only become such an infamous chara... enough already
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enogh already : "Laura Didio has only become... Smithy
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Well, Smithy. I'm a Linux supporter. I... Andy C -
This type of thing tends to happen... Rich Steiner -
"This a free country.
This is America, n... enough already
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Enough already : "Yet in that same... Smithy
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"What on earth has making late... enough already
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smithy. I do not care for Linu... Anonymous
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Smithy wrote:
"Time for these... Suprised Heterosexual
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Ingrid, and ZD, you are redeem... Anonymous
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I am surprised US is called fr... Outsider
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Gee, Laura. Perhaps you shoul... steggy
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Ms Didio told me her level of... Weston Goodwin
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Enough already : "Another spin, ext... Smithy
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"FACT: Threatening, late night... Anonymous
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"FACT: Threatening, late night... Chris
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RE: "FACT: Threatening, late n... Anonymous
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Take it easy.. Smitty has two... Bobby
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No, I'm not a psychopath
Laura... Smithy
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"This a free country.
This is Amer... Anonymous
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FACT: SHE EARNED IT! It was not because... Han Solo
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Smithy, you troll, posing as an expert i... Leon Brooks
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Let Smithy alone
He´s just expressing un... Crow
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Am I the only one cringing at the number... A Nonny Mouse
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So Yankee Doodle 'lost her pony'!!! Sob! Sob! Anonymous
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For the record: Phoney IT analysis: bad.
Thr... Anonymous
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Oh, Boy.
I've read little enlightening i... Andy Nemec
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if you want to talk about communists... chinese go... Anonymous
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Well here's some topical background on the style o... Anonymous
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To call people using Linux "Linux extremists" or... Anonymous
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Two comments:
First, there are good and bad things... Anonymous
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Didiot and her fellow-idiots Enderle and Brow... Anonymous
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Ms. Didiot has acquired her reputation by repeated... Anonymous
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Every movement has its radicals, particularly when... Matthew C. Tedder
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To start with, calling her home, threatening her,... Anonymous
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What is this woman talking about? "I've lived thro... Anonymous
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Sorry Miss that we open source people feel so adim... Joseph A Dydula
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Dildio is just like her skinnier sister MoG she c... sdhhlsh
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Without Windows, Didio is nothing.
Same with Ender... Anonymous
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Anonymous Engineer: she really is that dense.... Leon Brooks
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Only software? It's only my livelihood Laura's tra... Leon Brooks -
DiDio is nothing more than another two-bit journal... Dennis Soper
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LD, RE, MOG etc are paid to provide 'talking... Anonymous
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The Yankee Group = 0 (Zero) credibility!
Hey ZDNET... William Gatesler
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I am a Linux user and a Windows user...as a matter... Vince Vargas
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"There are excellent to both, but only Linux... Boomer
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Why does the It industry as a whole insi... Anonymous
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Taming of the DiDioT Shill
Laura DiDioT has been s... Henry Thoreau
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There are definately nutjobs in the linux communit... Antonio Baloney
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People, people, don't you see this is exactly... Gavin
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Yes it is bad that people target individuals, but... pastyboy
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No matter if you agree with the studies or not I d... Tim
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How did the anonymous "nutbag" get her privat... rams
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Let me see...
Question: How many administrators do... James Cornell
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looks like ZDNET has a limit on post size..... bobby
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Dear Ms Didio,
When you make absurd statements bas... rob smith
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I am tired of informal surveys being used to prove... Steve Conners
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Ms. DiDio's commentary, mostly regarding the curre... Bob Halloran
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Linux Extemists? LOL! I use Windows primarily beca... Jeff
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I find it odd that nobody believes a word Mis... Anonymous
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I agree. Calling someone at 1am in the morning is... Steve McAtee
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Well, now we see how far we've come. The 'indepen... Pengo Tuxedo
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Ms. DiDio please note;
The crowd has moved on... Brody Miller
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This study has gotten way too much press. I have... brad
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Of course they have, it's good PR for them.
E... Bob Halloran
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In one thing I agree with Ms DiDio, intemperate be... Jules
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Several things..
As James Cornell said pr... bobby
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Who can tell if I'm a GNU/Linux zealot or a MS emp... Anonymous
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Pamela Jones receives just as many negative reacti... SmyTTor
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Very, very clever. Your company takes the debate a... Software Engineer
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Well, freaks making phone calls, that is a bit too... JohnM
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Well, Linux is superior on the core level to Windo... Anonymous
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RE: TCO for an x86 system...
The hardware ramifica... Poppe
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Get the facts right.
She doesn't say she was "thre... blackbelt_jones
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EVERYONE READ THIS... Two questions that must be p... Poppe
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nothing personal,
its just a software ,
how can u... Ahmed Mohiuddin
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She's Absolutely On-Target.
This is truely unfortu... Richard Lohman
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To sum this up: money talks. Arthur B.
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I think many people forget that by and large... Anonymous
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Didio is a shil. Look at this video of her from M... No Shill
