In a recent report delivered by the Gartner Group, Vice President and Research Director John Pescatore advised that enterprises seek alternatives to the Microsoft IIS platform. After analyzing the recent Code Red and NIMDA attacks, Gartner believes that their clients should reconsider their investments in the Microsoft infrastructure. They are not the first to say so. While concern over these events is clearly merited, following this advice would prove extremely costly, and would do little to address the underlying problems that resulted in the spread of these attacks.
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