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My MAIN problem with windows on a server is this "There are places in the government (not where I work) where "windows update" is the official policy. Those places get every patch before a hack has been posted, and rarely if ever get exploited whatsoever."

You cant do that, you can try but it will bite you in the rear, you see many windows updates require a reboot, fine for the desktop but murder in a complex server environment. We are moving off of windows for out storage server because we have had to reboot it three times this month! that means all the process servers that dump files there have to come down or they break!

Exactly. Windows is NOT "highly reliable" if you keep having to bounce the servers constantly.

What amazes me is that, even with the massive reduction in the number of reasons a reboot would be needed (IIRC, 200+ in NT 4.0, ~50 or so in W2K), you still have to keep rebooting the damn thing that often.

If Microsoft fixes Windows so that after a patch, it never needs a reboot, they will be doing themselves and everyone else a big favor.

113 posted on 09/05/2003 11:24:08 AM PDT by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.)