I hate to tell you I told you so, but dammit… I told you so!

Not that I enjoy gloating or search for reasons to do so.?
However, sometimes, it is just appropriate.? Windows users, and
you know who you are, we (unix lovers everywhere, even Mac fans) have
been telling you over and over… you are vulnerable.

We can debate all day long about smaller server/desktop share, smaller
target, wider distribution, yadda yadda yadda.? And, I will grant
that a small percentage of exploitable vulnerabilities do in fact exist on my
preferred platform, but I will maintain that proportionally, Microsoft
Windows has far more in number, that are far greater in severity.

Microsoft continues to put out buggy and incomplete products that IT
managers everywhere can’t wait to implement.? No IT professional
has ever been fired for choosing Microsoft, they all
proclaim.? Well, that is truly a shame.? CxO’s should expect
more from their IT departments.? They should expect not to loose
email servers for hours for what amounts to a trivial bug in
Microsoft’s code.

If the software that I’ve written and deployed in my time exhibited a
major outage during peak work hours, I promise you that I would hear
from the CxO, maybe even the dreaded CFO call.? “Well, we’ve been
reviewing next year’s budget….”.? What a shame that CxO’s expect
LESS out of solutions from one of the biggest software companies in the
world,
than from a small firm down the street trying to make a living.?
That has always seemed backwards to me.? CxO’s, there are
alternatives and you should keep talking to someone until they show you
some.? Nothing is worse than having a myopic view of platforms
when making IT decisions.

Well, folks… It’s time to wake up and smell the Unix.? The “Dark
Ages” of IT have long passed, and there are alternatives that work
better and are cheaper to implement and maintain.? You don’t have
to have a guy with a beard locked in the basement, but I fully admit
that it helps.? Just as it would help with any enterprise mission
critical system.? Smart people = better systems.? Platform is
a rounding error in that equation.? However, if you want that next
level of performance and reliability, it becomes obvious what the
choice is.? (Hint: It ain’t Windows)

So, anyway.. back to what I was saying..? We told you so.. we’ve
been telling you so… and we will continue to tell you..? Running
Microsoft’s operating systems make you more vulnerable and less secure
than other alternatives.? IT professional ego’s are a funny thing
and rarely does one like being told of a better way that didn’t come
from their own lips.? However, sometimes the truth isn’t what you
first thought and technology evolves.?

What hell am I talking about?
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