Microsoft has claimed that open source database products and servers such as Linux have had a "significantly greater number and severity of vulnerabilities compared with Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000".

Speaking at the Redmond giant’s October 2003 Partner Conference, Mike Nash, corporate vice president of the Security Business and Technology Unit at Microsoft, attempted to justify the controversial claim by citing a report, Role Comparison Security Report : Database Server Role.

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