No point even getting into the fact that a misconfigured or unpatched server can be hacked through firewalls of all shapes, sizes and license-type. I’m sure you and your team will do a much better job of deploying ISA than those clowns did. It’s probably safe to say that they weren’t running some over – rated OSS so they don’t count, right?ĭon’t worry, you’ll be ok. Oh, wait a minute…! I guess we can’t add them. They were hacked a couple of times over the last 18 months or so. Your method is much more efficient.īut don’t forget to add MS UK to your little list there. Wow, to think that most security professionals waste time with a thorough analysis of network use, requirements and other cirtical factors before making a determination for applications and hardware to deploy. Thats why we use Microsoft ISA Server and not some over-rated OSS. Plus lots more!!! It was all over the net last year!! The following organisations/web sites were hacked in the last 18 months: Not so with Microsoft, and they’re fighting desperately not to have to. We all know that companies large and small have to change, change personnel and change management all the time. Microsoft are not a real in company in that they’ve been living in a dream world since they were started. All of the top management, including Gates and Ballmer, would simply have to go. To initiate that change you have to have the will to do it from the top of the organisation down, and Microsoft’s current attitudes, practices and methods are extremely deeply embedded into the organisation. Microsoft will not go away, but by the time that they undergo an IBM-like transformation, a lot will have changed. Their only hope is litigation, digital restriction management and the like. Many in the industry are trying to hype it into a big thing, but no one is doing anything with it. It isn’t even anything new – it’s twenty year old ideas regurgitated. If you mean service oriented architectures, then you’re simply not familiar with what a load of hot air it is. They can do it and they will do it, but only when they absolutely have to, which will be around 2012-15. ![]() The first OEM to create an Apple-like experience at $300 box, which I predict will happen in the next two years through the combination of KDE 4 and cheap hardware, will get all of these users and make millions in the process. The latter does not care and will happily use anything that is preloaded in the box. The former knows the pains of having to deal with binary undocumented file formats, undocumented over the wire protocols and the arrogance of a company that dictates when and how you can change your infrastructure, because ultimately it is their product and their “source code”. The only people that I know use Windows is because they have locked themselves into the platform and do not know how to get out or they do not understand what the word platform or operating system means. If the above holds true, then I wish Microsoft well, because I believe they are fighting a battle that cannot be won until they change from within, something that the company will take a long time to see. In order to have a workable service model, you must have source to the apps and you must be able to change them. The underlying premise of this topic is that the service model will triumph in the software industry because it will lead to happier customers.
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