[Gllug] Apache 'low-value'

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Tue Jun 17 09:14:56 UTC 2003


On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:07:03AM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> 
> "Richard Turner" writes:
> 
> >According to Paul Flessner, senior vice president of the Server
> >Development Platform Division of Microsoft, Apache is a 'low-value' web
> >server.  Oh dear.  We'd better all migrate to IIS then...
> 
> Indeed. We paid a total of zero pounds and zero pence for our Apache
> server, and last month we took 60 million hits without even breaking
> sweat. Sounds like pretty good value to me :-)
> 
> Interestingly, he acknowledges that Linux is taking hold in gateways
> and security devices, but seems oblivious to the reasons. He says it'll
> keep them focussed on TCO, but apparently hasn't noticed that security
> is a more important deciding factor than TCO for security devices. D'oh!

More to the point:

Security breaches can add a lot to the TCO of a product.

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