“Our network administrators are very diligent about applying patches so most of our machines were already protected,” he says. “The remaining machines were patched in a few hours. The ease of obtaining the patches from Microsoft made the issue much less of a problem than it could have been.”
Because of this, Stemper says, he hasn’t given much thought to replacing IIS with another Web server platform. Besides, he confesses, his IT organization already moved once from another platform – Apache – to IIS. “We used to be an all-Apache shop. We had a very difficult time finding the detailed help that we needed when issues arose,” he avers, adding: “We were affected more by hacking attempts and cracks then than we ever have been with IIS.”
Also, Netcraft later updated its November report to show that more sites had switched from other platforms to IIS in the same month -- 148,000. iPlanet/Netscape-Enterprise lost three times as many sites to IIS as it gained from Microsoft's server in its high-profile migration promotion, according to Netcraft.
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