[ale] Infoworld 6/21/04 page 39 ... "Doh!"

[Brian J. Dowd]

Sean Mahon, the New York Fed's vice president of system management:

"Our real problem is cross-platform," Mahon says. "Fortunately,
our Unix-based platforms are more stable in regards to new security 
vulnerabilities.
It's the Microsoft platforms that have become extremely resource-intensive."

(The Fed maintains 10,000 discrete devices; AS/400, HP-UX, Linux, 
Novell, Solaris and
...Windows)