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Blunier, Mark
Unfortunately, you are comparing apples to oranges. In your Linux distribution, with several different versions of a specific application, take an FTP server for instance, if a couple of distributions have a couple of different ftp server packages that have a vulnerability, you're counting that as 4 bugs, even though only one FTP server is installed. In other cases, such as in web servers, a vulnerability you'd count against Linux would not count against windows, as the windows OS does not include a web server. If I were to release MBWS (marks buggy web server) for both Linux and windows, would it be fair to bash Windows for vulnerabilities in the windows version of MBWS? That's what you're doing to Linux.
I don't see how you can even suggest that they are similar. When Linux gets a vulnerability identified, it gets fixed. When Windows gets a vulnerability, its 'fire walling' and virus protection software gets updated, and then later if we're lucky, the software that is vulnerable gets fixed.
As far as the original thread goes, it doesn't matter what the title is of the person is that is managing the systems. The person should be competent in technology required for the work. Unfortunately, both IT and Maintenance have plenty of people that aren't competent in their traditional areas, that to expect them to be competent in both is unreasonable. But there are a few exceptional people that could do both competently.
Mark
I don't see how you can even suggest that they are similar. When Linux gets a vulnerability identified, it gets fixed. When Windows gets a vulnerability, its 'fire walling' and virus protection software gets updated, and then later if we're lucky, the software that is vulnerable gets fixed.
As far as the original thread goes, it doesn't matter what the title is of the person is that is managing the systems. The person should be competent in technology required for the work. Unfortunately, both IT and Maintenance have plenty of people that aren't competent in their traditional areas, that to expect them to be competent in both is unreasonable. But there are a few exceptional people that could do both competently.
Mark