[ale] EULA trap (fwd)

[Jim Philips]

I worked in a banking data center and we didn't allow anybody to push data of 
any kind to our servers. We only retrieved the data in a way we could 
control. But in my time in banking, I did see software that could only be 
supported by having a technician log onto the production server using 
PCAnywhere (Ouch!). That was of courseon NT based software. If I were an 
officer of the bank, I would present this information to my federal examiners 
and ask them what they think of it. Of course, I don't think it likely that 
the current administration would get tough with Microsoft over an issue like 
this.

On Tuesday 22 October 2002 05:16 pm, tslane at attbi.com wrote:
> why would a financial institution, of all industries, run
> M$   on anything less than two firewalls away (re:
> desktop) from a mission critical application?
>
> if you need more robust security/auditing than the GPL
> DBs currently offer (which a bank certainly would) then
> Oracle runs quite nicely on Linux (we've been production
> for > 1 yr now).
> ----------------------  Forwarded Message:  ---------------------
> From:    Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at mindspring.com>
> To:      ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] EULA trap
> Date:    Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:58:35 -0400
>
> M$ latest EULAs apparently have financial institutions worried
> about the security of their data bases.  The story can be found
> here:
>
> http://boston.internet.com/news/article.php/1485861
>
> It's an interesting read for any sysadmin who must guarantee
> security for critical data.


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