On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 08:12:23AM -0700, Ben Calvert wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:58:31 +0530, "Siju George" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3667201 > > >From the article: > > Microsoft is doing better overall than its leading commercial > competitors. ^^^^^^^^^^ > > No wonder. they stacked the deck before doing the comparison
As I see it they compared: Microsoft: 12 serious vulnerabilities in the OS Red Hat: 2 serious vulnerabilities in the kernel + packages Mac OS X: 1 serious vulnerability in the OS HP-UX: ?? _serious_ out of 98 total Solaris: ?? _serious_ out of 36 total for OS + third-party apps The article seems to rank by the number of patches. If a vendor waits and sends out a mega-patch even monthly, to fix more bugs than anyone else, then that's only two patches over a 6 month period. Its a poorly constructed survey. Doug.
