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[PLUG] MS anti-Unix website running on Unix!
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You can't make this stuff up and, I reiterate, it is *not* an AFJ!
> Funny! And yes, it's true -- see:
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http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=www.wehavethewayout.com
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> So Unisys is saying that web servers don't have to be scalable and
> multi-processor? Ooh, bad PR all around...
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> * MICROSOFT'S ANTI-UNIX WEB SITE RUNS ON UNIX
> This report might sound like an April Fool's joke, but it's true. A new
> anti-UNIX Web site sponsored by Microsoft and its server partner, Unisys,
> runs--not on Windows, as you might expect--but on FreeBSD, a free UNIX
> variant that UNIX adherents consider more secure and reliable than Linux.
> The site ( <http://www.wehavethewayout.com> ) is part of Microsoft's new
> $25 million "We Have The Way Out" advertising campaign, which Microsoft
> and Unisys apparently aren't targeting at Web site operators.
>
> Mark Fromm, a UNIX fan and systems administrator, discovered the
> embarrassing software choice when he heard about the advertising campaign
> and decided to investigate. "I was very surprised by what I found," he
> told The Wall Street Journal. "I thought it was interesting that Microsoft
> was saying that people should go to Windows, but that
> [the company was] using UNIX to say it."
>
> In addition to using a non-Microsoft OS, the "We Have The Way Out" Web
> site runs on Apache, the open-source Web-server software that has trounced
> Microsoft IIS by a 2-to-1 margin for years.
>
> When asked about the site, a Unisys spokesperson said that the
> Microsoft/Unisys alternatives to UNIX are aimed at the upper end of the
> market and require scalable, multiprocessor machines. "We are not talking
> about hosting a simple Web site," he said.
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