[KwasiOwusu]

"A university professor knows more? That's funny"

Yep.
A university professor in Computer Science does.
This is not Ward Churchill's "Ethnic Studies".
This is real science, and a real professor.

[CarryaBigStick]

I find your faith in science profs to be a little disturbing. They have their own incurable biases also.

[dalight]

What do you know about this guy? Who funded this study? What does it mean? Honest, like some of the other posters who actually run servers, I just don't get as much from this study as folks who just want to feel good about this OS or that OS.

If Howard Dean came out and said he liked Microsoft, would you see that as something to hang your hat on?

There is a good chance this study is meaningless because its metrics measure not real security but the way the two OS's are updated and how security threats are reported. I think its lame to get all excited about that. Honest, this metric has more to do with Microsoft believing its pointless to tell folks there is a whole and they don't have a fix. Where as Linux screaming, "Here is a hole!," is the way the hole gets fixed.

I will take a seasoned Sys Admin over a university prof in Computer Science any day. Gees.

[antiRepublicrat]

This is real science, and a real professor.

You've obviously never worked at a university, and I have, so the title "doctor" or "professor" means nothing to me anymore. You have to actually look at the individual professor's work to find out if he's worth anything.

[ShadowAce]

This is real science, and a real professor.

Ahh. OK. University professors are experts at everything, huh?
So I'm guessing that you'll believe these professors then.