I don't have any first hand experience with managing a production server on
either Linux or NT/2000, but I did just read a fascinating book -Secrets
and Lies: Digital security in a networked age, by Bruce Schneier. Among
zillions of other points and philosophical principles, he notes that each
OS API call represents a potential security hole. Linux has ~229, NT 4 SP
3 ~3433.

Incidentally, I think this book might be a good reference for those
interested in improving Firebird security.

good luck
David Jencks

On 2001.01.27 04:18:12 -0500 Alan Wright wrote:
> > Very nice website......especially the "Lessons Learned" page.
> >
>
> Thankyou
>
> >
> > My reasoning for wanting to run IB on win2000 is that I can rent a
> dedicated
> > server from www.valueweb.com for $395/month. Also, my unix/linux
> skills are
> > rusty.
>
> I may be wrong but I suspect you could get a better deal for renting a
> Cobalt
> box in the States.
>
> >
> >
> > So are there business / technical reasons not to use win2000 in a
> production
> > environment?
> >
>
> We just didn't feel comfortable about trying to remotely manage a windows
> box.
> All of our experience prior to this project was with either Mainframes or
> NT4 so
> we had no linux skills to be rusty! For us it was NT4 or Linux as
> Win2000 was
> was just too new for our liking. I had Win2000 on my latest PC and took
> it back
> to NT4 after the machine kept locking up. Probably a video driver or
> something
> rather than the core OS but who needs it. To be honest I haven't a lot
> of
> experience with Win2000 so it may have new and better remote management
> tools,
> but as a developer I know that software needs a good shakedown period -
> heaven
> knows they are still releasing patches to NT4.
>
> Good luck
>
> Alan
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alan Wright [mailto:AtheneSystems@...]
> > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 11:10 AM
> > To: IB-Java@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [IB-Java] RE: Re: Status of Firebird interclient
> >
> > Sorry - forgot to plug the website in my response to Thomas!
> >
> > It uses Interbase and Interclient, Javabeans and JSP. All source can
> be
> > downloaded
> > from the site if you are curious.
> >
> > http://www.free-minder.com/
> >
> > Alan Wright wrote:
> >
> > > Thomas Pridham wrote:
> > >
> >
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