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

He is not Howard Dean.
He is a university Computer Science professor.
I have seen countless posts on internet boards, from open source fanatics quoting some left wing university professor or the other, trashing Microsoft products.
The beauty of this one is ,this guys actually BACKS Linux.
Makes it just so delicious tome. :)
You guys don't have a problem with computer science university professors, you just have a problem with computer science university professors who puncture your bubble.
That is understandable.

"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"

Again you are clutching at straws.
There is an even better chance that this study is very solid and gives a very good indication of what happens in real life with Windows and Linux servers.

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

I don't.
I don't know any System Admins who have invented or written operating systems or network protocols etc etc.
I know computer science university professors who have.

I don't know any System Admins who have invented or written operating systems or network protocols etc etc.

Vint Cerf was an admin, then a programmer when he started working on the ARPANET host protocols, although he did finish up with TCP/IP while he was an assistant professor at Stanford.

But personally I know a sysadmin who wrote an OS.

There is an even better chance that this study is very solid and gives a very good indication of what happens in real life with Windows and Linux servers.

Argg..anyway. I just didn't see any justification for any of the arguments you have made or this conclusion from anything in this article or any "fact" which I still haven't seen one from you.. just opinion.

The only University professor that I know who wrote a major operating system that enjoys any market share today is Linus Torvalds.. mmmm.. I guess if we were going to talk about a group of university professors.. perhaps that would include the folks at UC Berkeley.. duh.. gees.. what operating system did these guys create..

There are some real Sys Admins posting on FR. They have interesting things to say if you listen. Just the same, there are lots or really interesting folks of all stripes around here.

Enjoy this study, folks who make a living dealing with this sort of thing have to look into whether this study is bogus before deciding what it means. There is more than one person here telling you there is a potential problem with this study.