Article Link: Windows more stable than Linux servers

[hlrguy]

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20272277,00.htm

Besides the obvious skepticism, I am wondering how they can claim...

'claims over 99.999 percent uptime, or less than five minutes of downtime per year.'

Is there an MS server in existence connected to the internet that hasn't been rebooted at least once per year to install a security update? I guess the 5-15 hours of downtime (assuming every patch loads successfully) installing the 45 server security patches wouldn't be included in the uptime calculation.

hlrguy

[KarrottoP]

it runs great, as long as its not doing anything. this is actually a quite I heard somebody else use on this subject but its extremely true...once you have it doing something usefull that number drops.

[bwkaz]

It's zdnet. What do you expect?

[ausoleil]

I must have missed it: when did ZDnet get bought by Micro$oft? All they are anymore is a FUD-packer for Redmond. Guess that's why I never go to their site anymore. It lost it's objectivity and therefore relevance a long time ago.

ps. I run Linux because I like to sleep at night. And the only reason I ever reboot is to add hardware.

[mdwatts]

Ask any Microsoft employee and they will certainly substantiate that claim with a definite 'BG Yes'.

[Okie]

ZDNet are the biggest M$FT Sycophants on the internet, especially David Coursey...

http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame38.html

http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html

http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame38.html

[bwkaz]

Stratus has backed up its position with a US$100,000 payment if a business experiences any unplanned downtime, but limits this to its top of the line ftServer 6500 series running Windows 2000 Advanced Server covered by Stratus Business Critical ftService. Note how they word that. UNPLANNED downtime, not downtime in general. Your server could be unavailable to the entire world while you fix security holes every other day (and it can be just about every other day sometimes), but that's apparently "planned" downtime, so it doesn't count.

:rolleyes:

Bunch of morons...

You know, what I'd like to do is get one of those servers, then wait until a security hole gets fixed, and apply the patch. Let it reboot, and claim it wasn't planned downtime, you just did it on the spur of the moment. Or claim it rebooted without you noticing it. Or maybe something dropped onto the return key while the stupid dialog box saying "you must reboot to continue" and only having an OK button, was up. Get enough people to do that, and it'd turn heads up there.

[hlrguy]

Originally posted by bwkaz
Note how they word that. UNPLANNED You know, what I'd like to do is get one of those servers, then wait until a security hole gets fixed, and apply the patch. Let it reboot, and claim it wasn't planned downtime, you just did it on the spur of the moment. Or claim it rebooted without you noticing it.

Don't you worry, old Bill et all will add the spyware tracking capability to both 1) detect and log all user activities totally hidden from the user and 2) for the extra $50,000 make it so the server can alter the log entries to make it look like it was user error. :D

hlrguy