Oracle Has More Flaws Than SQL Server

Posted by kdawson on Monday November 27, 2006 @06:54AM from the nyah-nyah dept.

jcatcw writes, "Next Generation Security Software Ltd. of Surrey, England, compared bugs in Oracle and SQL Server that were reported and fixed between December 2000 and November 2006. The tally: Oracle had 233; MS SQL had 59. The products compared were Oracle 8, 9, and 10g; SQL Server 7, 2000 and 2005. From the article: '[The head of the survey said,] "The results show that the reputation that Microsoft SQL Server had back in 2002 for relatively poor security is no longer deserved."' Oracle's response: 'Measuring security is a very complex process, and customers must take a number of factors into consideration — including use-case scenarios, default configurations, as well as vulnerability remediation and disclosure policies and practices.'"

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Re:Features? by LordEd · 2006-11-27 09:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic

How did this get modded "informative?"
To get moderated on Slashdot, take your formula:

Product A is WAY better than brand X! Even product C is better than brand X!
Next, assign appropriate products to your variables, where X is a microsoft product, A is a popular open source product, and C is a different competing product.

You can get additional mod points by combining the word "Microsoft" with one of these words ("DRM", "Security", "BotNet", "Genuine Advantage"), and add a negative spin to the sentences in relation to product X.