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EDS: Linux is Insecure, Unscalable

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the still-better-than-the-rest dept.

daria42 writes "Large enterprises should not use Linux because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could fork into many different flavours, according to the Agility Alliance, which includes IT heavyweights EDS, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Dell and EMC."

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  1. Insecure and unscalable, eh? Pull the plug. by dr.ka0s · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You know, to give everyone -- especially the analysts and critics -- a little perspective on just how secure and scalable Linux is and why it /is/ so much more appropriate for the enterprise than Windows, I think we should coordinate a world-wide demonstration.

    For just one day (hell, and hour would probably be sufficient), let's get everyone on the Internet who maintains a public DNS server, mail server and/or web server running on Linux to turn them off. Right? Let's turn off all of our "insecure, unscalable" Linux servers for an hour and see just how much these same critics can get done during that time.

    What do you think would be their response? When there's no way to resolve most domain names into IP's, when there's no Google, no Yahoo, and no AOL, Earthlink, etc etc e-mail. Hell, even MSN Messenger won't work without proper DNS resolution. I suspect those same critics would change their tune rather quickly and reassess why most of the Internet isn't running on Windows -- because of the very same accusations, unfounded though they may be, that they're making about Linux.