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Why UNIX is better than Windows... By Microsoft

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the nice-to-know dept.

BenBenBen writes "According to a whitepaper found on "a fairly insecure server", UNIX not only is more reliable and easier to maintain than Windows (2000 in this case), it's cheaper too. These shock results are reported on both The Register and (the source) Security Office."

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  1. Re:The Truth? You can't handle the truth by Drestin · · Score: 1, Troll
    If W2000 is so fast and efficient why can't I run it on a P133 with 24MB of RAM like I can Linux?


    If a Ferrari is so fast and well built, why will it barely start and not get over 50 mph while running 80 octain watered down gas?


    BTW: W2K will run on a P133 with 32 MB of RAM (not sure about 24) because I've seen it.


    As for your other anecdotal evidence? In this forum it's useless so I'll ignore it.

  2. Re:The Truth? You can't handle the truth by Drestin · · Score: 1, Troll
    YOU attribute my comments to the wrong article. I was refering the to link *I* provided. Not the stolen document written BEFORE Hotmail was converted successfully, in one shot, to W2K. All the comments you rebutt with are taken from the predated article, not the current record of fact.

    Fact: There is full blown comprehensive scripting abilities in W2K. If you claim otherwise than you are simply wrong. And this is proven effortlessly by anyone who has actually used Windows 2000. Either you have not or if you have then you either don't know what you are missing or are simply lying.

    Fact: Fewer servers handle more users on hotmail than ever was done using BSD. It's fact. Get over it.

    Fact: W2K is stable. This is proven by anyone who runs it with anything remotely approaching two brain cells firing. The millions using it attest to this fact. Our data center with 100s of W2K servers running under load daily prove it. We just don't see crashes. Period. Neither to our partners. We do, often, laugh at how it seems that the only people reporting crashes are either the warez kiddies or (ex-)unix admins (and that not sarcasm).

    My comments are based on the factual Hotmail migration - not the old pre-migration document stolen from some old FTP directory.

    Side note: The guy that authored the stolen document -- he is also a reviewer for the final migration document I linked to and his opinions have changed CONSIDERABLY. He now knows how wrong he was. Do you?