__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Monday 05 March 2007 03:01 \__
> Interesting article. A quote that caught my attention:
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> We had our own HTTP stack, which is the basic software that you need
> in every web server, and we abandoned it for [the open-source web
> server] Apache after a while, when our people told us that Apache was
> far better than anything we had.
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>
> This (Apache) must be the Linux slopware that DFS and Hadron Quark are
> always talking about. Of course Apache is not Linux, but like Linux
> it is FOSS. See my earlier post on the history of IBM and Apache:
>
>
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/browse_frm/thread/ecaefa9065ac3c90/ed98111f091f80a6?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1&hl=en#ed98111f091f80a6
>
> The interview with John Swainson is particularly interesting. See
> also the link with the visual comparison between IIS and Apache:
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/index.php?p=311
I could never find any reliable source to back the following statement (which
is why it wasn't in News Picks), but it's probably noteworthy.
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| "IIS Web server software were twice as likely to have
| database vulnerabilities compared to those using Apache"
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/02/08/half-of-online-retailers-vulnerable-to-hackers
Of course, the mentioning of a database here makes you raise a brow (or two).
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