Have to buy Microsoft? Or anything?

[Masters, Gary E]

Once it was IBM that everyone had to buy.  "Nobody ever got fired for buying
IBM."  But that did not last.

When it was my choice, I had Novell, GroupWise and Word Perfect.  However,
they were not that much of a help when it came to defending them against
Microsoft.  By boss never understood why I liked GroupWise and at the end
(when I left last year) I was having trouble selling myself.  Except, the
many Microsoft direct problems never hit us.  Novell was always a pain to
deal with, even when I had the active support of the CEO (now retired).  So,
I don't see a cure.   Linux is interesting and I bought Red Hat to test.

FDA is all Microsoft and several years old Microsoft at that.

I see no solution other than to keep them all lean and hungry.  How does one
do that?

Gary



Gary E. Masters
Librarian (Systems)
CDRH - FDA
(301) 827-6893 

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Richard L. Goerwitz III [SMTP:richard at goerwitz.com]
	Sent:	Wednesday, September 19, 2001 9:17 AM
	To:	Multiple recipients of list
	Subject:	[WEB4LIB] Re: alternate site for resource page on
attacks

	Raymond Wood wrote:

	> > Because of the latest virus to strike us, our webserver is down
as we wait
	> > for an update from Norton.
	> 
	> I hear apache is immune ;>




	It may be time for institutions who have sunk a lot of time and 
	energy into Microsoft products to look... (at other products.)

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	Richard Goerwitz                               richard at Goerwitz.COM
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