One of my good friends who manages thousands of Windows servers for a Fortune 50 corporation called me this morning. I had never heard him sound so excited in my life! He let me know that in light of this record security update, his company was planning to replace every single Dell blade in their datacenter with Xserves running Mac OS X.
When the suits at the company ran the numbers, they found that patching the Windows servers for massive numbers of security vulnerabilities each month was costing the company millions of dollars. By switching to Xserves, they would no longer have to pay millions of dollars for a support infrastructure just to patch security vulnerabilties. As everyone knows, such issues do not, and have never existed on the Mac platform.
The best part is this: the cost of upgrading all the ugly Dell 1U servers to new sleek, brushed aluminum Xserves was cheaper than the monthly cost of updating all the Windows servers in the datacenter!
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