Alan Paller and Stephen Northcutt (7)

"System vendors will begin (very slowly) to take more responsibility for informing users of important security patches and for automating their safe installation. Microsoft will lead Sun in providing this service."


An intriguing thought; neither of these companies has ever been particularly responsive to security issues.

Pressure from "Open-Source" software such as Linux and *BSD may certainly push vendors in that direction.

This would be a very good thing.