Re: Long live Windows production servers
Much as I feel your pain I think this is on A/V in general and Symantec in particular rather than Windows. A/V is just a horrible, self-perpetuating solution that gives me the willies architecturally, irrespective of what platform it's on or who provides it. "Oh so you want to hook into every I/O on my system as a privileged user and stay resident in protected memory all day? Well what could be wrong with that?"
As far as Linux vs. UNIX goes, yes, I would be the first to acknowledge that Real UNIX blew and continues to blow Linux out of the water in many respects (Solaris virtualization is still vastly superior to anything Linux has for example, and live patching on Linux is still immature). But I am reminded of the story of the US colonel meeting General Giap of the Viet Cong at the Paris peace talks to negotiate an end to the Vietnam war:
Col. Harry G. Summers Jr.: "You know, you never defeated us on the battlefield."
General Giap: "That may be so. But it is also irrelevant."