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Re: [News] Windows PC at Universities Can Become Zombie Armies

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:09:53 +0100
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ____/ ed on Sunday 19 August 2007 14:48 : \____
> 
> > On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:34:35 +0100
> > Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> >> My daytime job is around JANET and there have been some serious
> >> congestion issues some months ago. In fact, in December the mail
> >> server got knocked down by excessive Windows spewage.  
> > 
> > Mail was given and removed in the time that I was studying. They
> > went from Novel to Windows domain and it just sucked. They tried
> > using Exchange for the mail and within a week it was buckling and
> > we all lost mail accounts for good.
> > 
> > Until that time I did not appreciate how much time and effort
> > Windows networks consumed. It was a sorry time.  
> 
> Like father, like son. Like desktop, like server.
> 
> TCO studies and stories heard suggest that Windows is a chore to
> manage in the datacentre. My mail servers (e.g. the one on
> schestowitz.com) has not raised an error in years, with the exception
> of server migrations. An Exchange server in the faculty, on the other
> hand, is a disaster and I considered dropping it altogether because
> of the annoying prompts it leads to (focus stealing).

TCO studies are nothing more than FUD.

Putting exchange on the internet is as risky as painting a target on
your ass, bending over, naked, in a Greenwich Village steam room.

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