Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Gartner Group Suggests Dumping IIS For Now

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dump-dump-dump dept.

sachmet is one of the many readers who contributed news that "Gartner Group is now recommending that IIS be replaced in corporate environments. This is based on the fact that TCO for IIS is rising due to the almost-weekly patches sent out by MS, and even then, it's nearly impossible to get patched quickly enough. Best part: 'Gartner remains concerned that viruses and worms will continue to attack IIS until Microsoft has released a completely rewritten, thoroughly and publicly tested, new release of IIS,' which they say has an 80% chance of happening by the end of next year." Gartner hasn't always said favorable things about Linux systems in the workplace, but the businesses that rely on this type of analysis to justify purchasing decisions may find this one interesting. Update: 09/24 22:04 GMT by T :As several people have pointed out, the 80% figure appears to be Gartner's odds that IIS won't be rewritten that soon, rather than the other way around (.673334 probability).

7 of 502 comments (clear)

  1. Dumping IIS? by Guillaume+Ross · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't it one of the greatest P2P app out there for automatic file sharing?

  2. Now THATS Funny... by FatHogByTheAss · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've quit jobs due to PHB reliance on the morons over at Gartner.

    "Unix will be a dead OS in three years." Quoth one, on his reasoning behind implemening MS solutions for the enterprise. (~ 1995)

    An expensive Gartner "analyst" told him so.

    Shoulda gave me that budget...

    HooHa!

    --

    --
    You sure got a purty mouth...

  3. OH MY GOD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My PHB just saw this, screamed "MY PARADIGMS ARE MELTING!" and collapsed into a pile of goo. Many thanks to the Gartner Group!

  4. Dear Gartner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Sorry I was late with the usual monthly cheque. I assure you that this will never happen again.


    Love,
    Bill

  5. New MS slogan.. by nickmdf · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Where do you want your security hole today?"

  6. Re:This is interesting, in a number of respects. by ghostlibrary · · Score: 2, Funny

    >Firstly, this is one of the few times the Garner Group has openly critisised a Microsoft product

    I hope they weren't using Frontpage when they wrote it. "Garner found in license violation."

    --
    A.
  7. Re:There's TCO on Apache, too. by Phexro · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The difference is that apache *requires* the installer to do some manual work"

    $ su -
    Password:
    # apt-get install clue