Re: Amazon Boycott, continued (fwd)

[Adam Turoff <ziggy@panix.com>]

> >Actually, I'm rather suprised that barnsandnoble runs off of IIS/NT. I
> >could see it working for the smaller sites, but for an operation that big
> >I wouldn't think it would even be possible. That's why borders & amazon
> >use Unix.

Let's not forget that microsoft.com is running IIS/NT.  It's one of the
largest sites on the web, in terms of content, authors, hit counts, 
and probably any other metric short of ferrets-per-packet.

Walt's story about QVC doesn't appear to be an aberrant case.

Of course, that does not address the frustration level that goes
hand-in-hand with IIS, managing NT or running the only server on the
planet that returns '503: Server Too Busy' errors.

Urb wrote:
>          How about this. Dell, who claims to be booking between $20 to $40
> million a day, is using ASP for the order system.
> 
> http://wwwapp.us.dell.com/us/en/ordstat/index.asp

At one point, Dell's site had the worlds largest sales from a website
(2-3 million/day at the time I think), and the site was running 
Next's WebObjects (Hi, Kurt!).  At that point in time, Gateway's site was
already all ASP-based.

Legend has it that Microsoft was furious that a PC vendor wasn't using
a Microsoft product for ecommerce (before the big ecommerce push).  They
offered to rewrite Dell's store in ASP *at their own expense* to get
Dell to convert.  The first few attempts failed, though they appear to
have succeeded some time in 1998 or so.

Z.

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