NOT SO - Huge Security holes in MS FrontPage 98

[Danny Yee]

> Many ISPs around the world have implemented large hosting sites using
> Frontpage Extensions and done this successfully - you can find a sample
> list of such sites at http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/hosting.htm.
 
But wasn't there an article (in Wired?) that showed that almost all "big"
(hits/second) sites were using Unix?  Could you even build something
like Altavista on NT?

> As for NT Server and its ability to function reliably, IDC confirmed
> that last year, for the first time, NT Servers outsold all varieties of
> Unix servers put together.  This would indicate that a large portion of
> the market believes that NT Server does provide a reliable computing
> platform.

And 50% or more of the web servers in the world are Apache.   But volume
alone doesn't prove anything -- cheap PC clones certainly outsold all
other computing hardware, but no one would suggest that makes them
"a reliable computing platform".  And one can sell anything if one has
enough money to market it... (maybe sales per advertising dollar would
make an interesting comparison :-)

[Going by my limited experience of NT, it is considerably more stable than
MacOS or other forms of Windows, but nowhere near as stable as the Unices
I've used - and that includes Unices that were in use ten years ago.]

> Hopefully I won't need to bore Link too much with my clearly affiliated
> views, and we can all enjoy the higher level of non-product-specific
> discussion that link is so good at providing :-)
 
Does this mean we have to bash Microsoft generically rather than attacking
specific monstrosities^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hproducts? :-)

Danny.