[thelist] closed source securtiy was: DB Security

[Martin]

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deke wrote on 4/5/01 10:58 pm

>> I'd say that most people running IIS *do* have the resources to fix
>> something if they had the source. As Netcraft.com points out, and as MS
>> fans like to point out everytime a new survey is released, IIS is *the*
>> main webserver for businesses. Many of those businesses like Dell,
>> Ebay,  Intel, and a shitload of other fortune 500's that we don't even
>> know about *do* have dedicated programming staff that could more than
>> handle a problem like this.
>
>I'm not sure what you mean by "main webserver for businesses".
>
>If you mean it's the most popular server for companies that host 
>themselves where they are connected to the company lan, rather 
>than using servers closer to the internet backbone, you're surely 
>right. 

Also few sizeable companies doing eBusiness will go MS unless
there's a strong MS server legacy in the firm. Mostly, they'll
go Sun/Oracle/iPlanet(or Apache)

Cheers
Martin

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