Admins say Linux Much More Secure than Windows

Golygydd Max writes "Linux is more secure than Windows. It's something that we've all heard before; however, this is not the opinion of yet another consultant but the opinion of sysadmins themselves. A survey of 6,000 IT staff by BZ Research, reported by Techworld, has found that 74 percent considered Linux secure or very secure, as opposed to 58 percent who found Windows to be insecure."

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The interesting part...

[Otter]

Obviously anti-Microsoft spin needs to take top billing, but the interesting point in there is this:

Linux developer preference for commercial distributions has declined steadily since 2003, when it was twice the rate for non-commercial, Evans Data's Spring 2005 Linux Development Survey found. Six months ago the preferences were roughly equal, and now 34 percent prefer non-commercial, compared with 28 percent who prefer a commercial version, the remainder having no preference.

The change is a sign that non-commercial Linux is becoming increasingly easy to use and maintain, without the need for commercial technical support, said Evans chief operating officer John Andrews. Eighty-five percent of developers said the biggest advantage of noncommercial distributions was the ease and cost of upgrades and maintenance.

"Increasingly easy to use" is probably true, but I'm thinking the real story buried in there is how much of their business userbase Red Hat has given up in the last couple of years...

News flash...

[Anonymous Coward]

News flash! Bagels and cream cheese popular together!

Re:Concerning the windows-knowledge of many admins

[Punboy]

What do you mean a "far better online time"? You mean they dont get hacked as fast? Thats a laugh. You must be new to slashdot or something, cause in the last... year or so there have been AT LEAST 5 articles showing that a Windows machine gets hacked into in almost 1/0th the time as a Linux machine. Just for the record, my home network file/database server has been up and running for 682 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes, and 7 seconds. Running Debian. Which is a linux distro.