One thing you gain by using Windows 2003 is that it
provide NIC teaming. SecurePlatform does not have that
feature. The paid version of SecurePlatform does have
that. Otherwise, SecurePlatform in general is easy to
support in my opinion.
Wayne
--- "Covington, Chris" <Chris.Covington AT PLUSONE DOT COM>
wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:21:47AM -0500, Kim
> Longenbaugh wrote:
> > Ok, one very good reason to use Splat at least for
> your enforcement
> > module is that the OS is already hardened out of
> the box, whereas if you
> > use W2K3 for the enforcement module, you will have
> to do all sorts of
> > things to adequately harden it.
> >
> > Plus, like someone else mentioned, if you use
> W2K3, you would have to
> > deal with the Windows Updates patching the server
> all the time, maybe
> > breaking things, and at the least causing reboots
> that would interrupt
> > service through the firewall.
> >
> > For Management modules, I prefer the Windows
> platform (XP, W2K, W2K3).
>
> You can either use a Windows platform, or you can
> use a Secure platform,
> it's up to you. ;) SPlat is much more reliable,
> minimal, quicker and of
> course cheaper.
>
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