Re: "Patches? We don't neeed no steekeen patches!" (Score 1)

One should also consider culture: NT/Win2K comes in plastic, Linux is, in the words of one of yesterday's items, a "continual beta." People check for patches for Linux because the development happens in the open and people assume that they will be updating and patching systems all the time. Managers don't think their people need to do the same for NT/Win2K and plan their workload accordingly. There is no doubt that NT/Win2K administrators are more overworked than their colleagues who do *nix administration. Managers assume that NT admins can administer user accounts, serve as DBAs on six MSSQL DBs, troubleshoot desktop boxes, plan policy, oversee acquisitions, test software, and code small apps. No one would ever say the same for their *nix admins, at least, only a fool would expect to get volumes of quality work from *nix admins so burdened. The trick is that with NT/Win2K, most of the time, one can get away with doing that. Most of the time.