OT: Microsoft Stands By IIS Despite Gartner Recommendation

[Patrick Fleming]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Thomas Mondoshawan Tate wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 07:27:31AM -0700, Carl Parrish wrote:
> > What kind of functionaily does IIS offer that Apache doesn't?
> >
> > Carl P.
> >
>
> How about the ability to remotely administer other IIS servers from the
> commandline? Oh... Wait... That's a security hole. =op
>
> AFAIK, IIS integrates more easily with M$ Outlook, ColdFusion, MSSQL, etc.
> For some reason people seem to think this adds functionality. Ironicially,
> most of those people don't realize that "products from other vendors" have
> precisely the same functionality (and in many cases more) just so they can
> compete with it (Ex: M$'s WebDAV -> Apache WebDAV, M$SQL -> mod_mysql, etc.)
>

Netcraft www.netcraft.com shows that although some(lots) machines are
being patched against the vulnerabilities the number of machines with
root.exe installed is steadily rising. Result is a patched machine with a
back door... next worm please.

Patrick