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  • Subject: Re: Microsoft Security Failure (should have stayed with AS/400)
  • From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 12:03:11 -0500

> from Al Macintyre
> News from another list that I am on, illustrating the high price Microsoft
is
> paying for the decision to leave the most secure computer system
manufacturer
> in the world, because of pride in need to run their own business on their
own
> creations before they really ready to handle that scale of operations.

although I agree that the iSeries is superior to any other box, I would like
to
point out a 'credo' Microsoft has: "eat you own dogfood", meaning that
at almost any cost try your hardest to use your own products, not for
marketing reasons but simply for quality-control (can't believe I said
that, but that is at least their avowed goal).



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