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Re: LAMP vs Microsoft
From: Bob Beck <beck () bofh cns ualberta ca>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:16:33 -0600
And I think vulnerabilities disclosed are a much better indicator of the changes to QA/development of products than any hyperbole from those responsible (be it management or developers.)
No, I think vulnerabilities disclosed is simply a measure of how much development and deployment is happening on the platform. period.
I fully expect that both the Microsoft and Linux based platforms to continue to be the most popular for web deployments and thus the most interesting for hackers to target and vulnerabilities to be found. What would concern me more here is if one platform was on the up whilst the other was on the down.
This will always be the case as one platform changes in popularity for deployments relative to another. The simple fact is most of the MS/PHP/JAVA web development will be being done by code monkeys, fresh out of school.. I'm pretty certain they will "inbug" the same average number of bugs per line of code they write no matter what platform it is. Development is often outsourced to an external coding haus, written to a spec, without complete info about what the whole final application is going to do. Frequently they don't even reuse "mature" code from past releases because you don't want to release it to the external people, or you're too busy chasing platform-du-jour (Want a great example of this? I'm betting Sun One, going from version 5 to version 6 is a good one) -Bob
Current thread:
- LAMP vs Microsoft Darren Reed (Jul 10)
- Re: LAMP vs Microsoft Jarrod Frates (Jul 10)
- Re: LAMP vs Microsoft Bob Beck (Jul 10)
- Re: LAMP vs Microsoft Darren Reed (Jul 15)
- Re: LAMP vs Microsoft Bob Beck (Jul 15)
- Re: LAMP vs Microsoft Darren Reed (Jul 15)
- Re: LAMP vs Microsoft Bob Beck (Jul 15)
- Re: LAMP vs Microsoft Bob Beck (Jul 18)
- Re: LAMP vs Microsoft Darren Reed (Jul 22)
- Re: LAMP vs Microsoft Darren Reed (Jul 15)
- Re: LAMP vs Microsoft George Capehart (Jul 18)
- Re: LAMP vs Microsoft Darren Reed (Jul 18)
- Re: LAMP vs Microsoft Hugo van der Kooij (Jul 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: LAMP vs Microsoft Steven M. Christey (Jul 12)