Ok what about the USAF. BTW: A public facing website really doesn't have a lot of secure data. Now if you're referring to their public portal for Army members only then yes it does.
But still what about the USAF...what do they run on most of their servers and desktops? I'm not 100% certain, but I'd bet windows has a lion share. So by your logic Windows is better than Mac because the USAF uses it throughout their enterprise.
Ok what about the USAF. . . .I'm not 100% certain, but I'd bet windows has a lion share.
You lose.
Most of the Air Force sites I found are using LINUX. The US Air Force Academy was using Solaris but this month switched the OS to LINUX while retaining the Sun server software.
However, the Air Force Reserve web site, www.afreserve.com, and the Air Force Research Lab web site, www.afrl.af.mil, runs on Windows. I hope that pleases you.
BTW: A public facing website really doesn't have a lot of secure data.
However, the military web sites ARE prominent, attractive targets for crackers from the lunatic left who regularly defaced them when they were running less secure software or OSes.
It does. There's constant fretting over Windows servers doing down, while the Sun, HP and IBM UNIX servers just keep humming for years.
I think the reason Windows has so much presence in the servers is because of cost-cutting measures back when UNIX was far more expensive than Windows. The government wanted to save money, so it started migrating from UNIX. What the government didn't realize was that what it was saving in purchase price it was losing in extra personnel hours, down time and complexity (several cheaper boxes to do the job of one solid expensive one). Do you realize what a headache it is to run Exchange to provide email for 20,000 people? It's frickin' insane!