Why Chicago Chose Linux
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| But she opted to avoid Windows. "When you think of Windows server, you
| think of rebooting the server, of always having to apply security
| patches. You think of viruses," she tells Datamation. "Not that it's
| not great for some things, but Linux and Solaris prove to be a lot
| less headaches than any other platform."
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3641251
Wow. Doesn't she sound like a c.o.l.a. 'zealot'? These arguments must be
nothing but exaggerated myths...
I also posted the following a week ago (new from Chicago).
Watchdog: Glitch exposes 1.3M voters' info to hackers
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| CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- The city is investigating a
| security glitch in its elections Web site that hackers
| could have used to swipe Social Security numbers and
| the personal information of about 1.3 million voters,
| officials said
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/24/chicago.elections.ap/index.html?eref=rss_tech
http://tinyurl.com/y5cccm
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