Microsoft Switches to Linux

[Dre G.]

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 11:02, Dave Hull wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Brian Densmore wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, as I was saying it shows that if you want 
> > a system that can robustly handle
> > a DDOS attack ... run Linux.
> 
> I may be wrong, but I think the reason Akamai's network is less vulnerable to 
> DDOS has less to do with the fact that they are running Linux and more to do 
> with the architecture of their network.
> 
> Linux is not immune to DDOS attacks. It may be easier to build a distributed 
> network that is less vulnerable to DDOS using Linux than an MS product, it's 
> certainly cheaper.

you hit it perfectly with that last statement. :)

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Dre G. <enabled at linuxjunkies.com>