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Source: MacWorld - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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For each of Red Hat, Mandrake and Debian, their websites reported more than double the number of security advisories of Windows 2000 and XP, Moore said, and while the Linux security advisory rate was rising, that for Windows was falling. . . .
Moore produced figures collected from websites of popular Linux distributions that he said showed the comparative security performance of open source operating systems and Windows. For each of Red Hat, Mandrake and Debian, their websites reported more than double the number of security advisories of Windows 2000 and XP, Moore said, and while the Linux security advisory rate was rising, that for Windows was falling. For Moore, that's evidence of the fallacy that open source code is inherently more secure than the commercial variety because it is seen by more eyes. "Security is an industry issue," Moore said, "and we're getting better." When it comes to the comparative price-performance of open source and Windows systems, Moore quoted IDC figures which apparently debunk the notion that Linux wins. For file and print serving, and network and security services, Windows has a five-year total cost of ownership advantage of up to 30 percent over Linux, according to Moore. In simple Web application delivery, however, Linux has a 5 percent advantage.
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