Linked by David Adams on Thu 17th Jul 2008 05:59 UTC, submitted by Caffeine Deprived
Microsoft's Windows beat operating system rivals Mac OS X and Ubuntu in a three-month test of update server uptime, according to Pingdom, a Swedish uptime monitoring company.
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2008-07-14
I only see one problem with the study itself and that is the mirrors issue that the article discusses. (Ubuntu has lots of mirrors all over the world and the study only used one or two.)
Other than that, the study seems perfectly fine, but does it matter? It seems unlikely that update servers not being up 100% of the time would cause a problem for anyone. I suppose if the uptime was less than 80-90% it would be a problem...
I would like to get the opinion of someone who deals with large groups of servers or with pushing updates to big companies.
Other random thought: Since Ubuntu updates are pushed on practically a daily basis and Windows and Mac updates are pushed much less frequently, could that be the explanation?