About a year ago Byte had an excellent article regarding reliability. In comparing PCs to Mainframes one of the biggest differences was the administration. As expert sysadmin can do wonders for uptime, regardless of the OS.
At the place I used to work they have a NT server that is maintained by the Service Manager for the store, while in the publishing dept. the Graphic Designer is using an almost identical box, but the system crashes almost daily. (This guy is a real twit...)
From this experience it seems alot of it is in the admin, rather than the OS.
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I'm not suprised by eBay's reaction. It seems to me that most major corporations are in denial when it comes to security holes in thier products.
I guess it just means they have to spend money to fix it that they could otherwise channel to thier already swollen profits.
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About a year ago Byte had an excellent article regarding reliability. In comparing PCs to Mainframes one of the biggest differences was the administration. As expert sysadmin can do wonders for uptime, regardless of the OS.
At the place I used to work they have a NT server that is maintained by the Service Manager for the store, while in the publishing dept. the Graphic Designer is using an almost identical box, but the system crashes almost daily. (This guy is a real twit...)
From this experience it seems alot of it is in the admin, rather than the OS.
I'm not suprised by eBay's reaction. It seems to me that most major corporations are in denial when it comes to security holes in thier products.
I guess it just means they have to spend money to fix it that they could otherwise channel to thier already swollen profits.