The real question that should be coming to people's mind by now, is that regardless of what kind of happy smiling support contract you're paying through the nose for, if a platform has a history of frequent, wide-sweeping, and catastrophic failures in it's security mechanisms, should you really be using it on your mission-critical systems?

] The Sasser worm, which exploits a flaw in Microsoft's
] Windows software, disrupted work at the Marine and
] Coastguard Agency, forcing staff to use pencil and paper
] to find ships and locate distress calls on maps.