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Story: Row over report praising Windows patching

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Picking a single daisy in a field full of brambles and thorns, Microsoft says "look at me!"

This is so ridiculous. Microsoft is hand picking the one thing they can find that might be a little cheaper, all the while ignoring any other issues with their OS.

The real reason it seems cheaper to patch MS Oses is because they have MCSE trained people applying the same methodologies used to upgrade MS servers working on Linux.

You don't hire a bicycle mechanic to work on your Ferrari, and you shouldn't hire MCSEs to maintain your unix machines.

With Windows, you have to be VERY careful applying patches to production machines. One slip and you've got a server that is has a scrambled brain and is never going to boot ever again.

With ALL versions of Unix / Linux I've ever used in production, the package management system allows packages to be backed out with little or no harm should the upgrade fail to work properly.

But the real issue is how much does downtime cost, how much does loss of data cost, etc... The cost of patching is like looking at the part of your corporate budget you spend on the electricity used to run the water cooler.

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