FilePro running on Unix vs Windows

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In the relative spacial/temporal region of
Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 02:20:36PM -0800, Bill Campbell achieved the spontaneous
generation of the following:
> 
> I would never put *ANY* mission-critical data on a Windows machine becuase
> of the many long-standing security and reliability problems inherent in the
> Windows design.  Furthermore, with 1.6gb already, you're not too far from
> the 2gb limit in Windows (I might suggest Apple's OS X Server, but I don't
> think FilePro runs on it :-).

FWIW, *nix nut though I am, Win2K and up are far more stable than the old
9x systems were.  There's also no 2gb limit in NTFS, which ships in Win2K
and WinXP.

I still would put Windows in a -server- role over my dead body.  But
I don't mind it as a desktop (in fact, I rather like w2k), and while
the security issues you raise are valid, the stability ones have been
largely improved over the years.  We have a Win2K machine here that's
been running without issue (short of a dead power supply at one point)
since April.  No problems, no infections, nada.  But Kelly and I don't
use our systems like most 'doze users, either.  Email -never- touches our
machine except through PuTTY emulation to a Solaris system, for example.
And with all the IE nonsense, we're very careful about where we browse
(not that this helped folks reading The Register last month...).  We may
switch to some other browser, but I dunno.  You have to update whatever
browser you use in any event--as long as MS fixes the holes and supplies
patches, I'm fine with it, I suppose.  I've gotten used to IE.  

And we're entirely firewalled via a router, to boot.  That's not your
typical home configuration or usage pattern--hell, it's better than many
government and corporate configurations and usage patterns, sadly.

mark->
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