Hello,

I gennerally don't get involved in these type of discussions due to the rapid tendency of degration. However; this study becons a response. Eeye tracks MicroSoft 3 years behind on critical patches. The worst response time I have ever seen out of Apache is 2 weeks.

I must agree that IIS 6.0 is to fresh/raw to be properly evaluated. Wait until the first vulnerability is found and factor in MicroSoft's response time to get a "properly working" patch out to the public. This I believe is were the number will seperate fact from advertising hype.

A good example of this is the now recalled Longhorn. What was hyped as the most secure OS MicroSoft ever released turned, in my opinion, into an advertising embarassment that MicroSoft will never live down. Apache 2.x have a working history, IIS 6.0 has nothing to back any creditable resultsd on.

An aside to this. lets have an evaluation of Linux vs MicroSoft done be a hard-core back-breaking blinder ridden MAC user, perhaps Steve Jobs. Then and only then will we settle this rhetotical os war. Those result WOULD be very interesting considering Steve Jobs' partiality to MAC. How about Larry Elliot (Oracle), the man that believes the PC is the parasitic plague of the universe, another very interesting result.