In an update on security at Microsoft’s recent worldwide partner conference, the company’s security head Mike Nash took aim at Linux and singled out Red Hat. Nash says between January and June this year, Microsoft released 38 security bulletins for Windows Server 2003, while in the same period 234 were issued for Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux 3.

But Mark Cox, head of Red Hat’s security response team, says a simple comparison of the number of advisories issued is misleading.

By Louis van Wyk at Reseller News.

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