dateExpert doesn't support Windows 9x. Unfortunately, your article fails to provide this information for all products under review.
I appreciate the article's information regarding agent-based versus non-agent-based patch managers. This was new to me, and now I'm inclined to go with PatchLink Update because of its architecture and support for non-Microsoft applications and custom patches/packages.
Saul Rodriguez
Business System Consultant
Baxter Healthcare Corp.
[email protected]
I found "PatchLink Helps Keep Windows Closed" extremely informative. I've been in this business since 1979, and over the years the "product testing" in other magazines has been reduced to "opinions" that often take no stance or mention no problems with the products tested, which makes them nothing more than sales pitches for advertising vendors.
I will keep reading Network Computing for facts and real, conclusive testing results while I let the rest of my "opinion"-related subscriptions expire. Keep up the good work in testing; you're the last magazine out there with an impartial eye and the guts to print your recommendations.
Kurt Nikolas
Senior Network Engineer
Canada Life USA
[email protected]
 |
Mac Fan
I can understand why Windows people who don't use Macs flame the OS X operating system. It's easy to relegate it to the world of education, art and audio. But really, folks, OS X is efficient and quick, and it works with anything you install on it. It doesn't lock up! I've worked with Windows 9x, XP, NT and 2000--and not one of them has ever functioned as well as either Unix or Mac's Unix-based OS 10.2. Windows XP gets closer, but I can install a Mac G4 in one-tenth the time it takes to configure XP--and it's still more stable.
Not trying the Mac G4 with OS 10.2 is like discounting science fiction but never reading Dune, proclaiming you're an atheist but never reading the Bible, agreeing with the media but never checking out the story, trusting the government because it promises it's telling the truth, stumbling with Photoshop on a PC instead of singing with it on a Mac, and claiming to be a systems engineer but never trying other OSs.
Rocky Karlage
Network Analyst/Consulting Engineer
Schulman Associates IRB
[email protected]
|
Tell us how you really feel. Write to us at [email protected]. Include your name, title, company name, e-mail address and phone number. All correspondence becomes the property of Network Computing.
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
