Re: Microsoft thwarted again

[Bill Heinz <bheinz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just for laughs, does anyone have a screenshot of the XP web page that 
plainly showed a "wall" of AS/400 CISC racks and someone working on a 
green screen on the far side of the room?

Jerry wrote:

> Call it a case of bad karma. As part of Microsoft's crusade to build support for
> its Windows operating system in the enterprise, the software giant launched an
> anti-Unix Web site with server partner Unisys last week, as part of a campaign
> to portray Unix as a complex operating system that unnecessarily ties users to
> expensive hardware. 
>
> Such a denigrating tactic would hardly garner much ink on a normal news day,
> except for the revelation of the embarrassing fact that the anti-Unix Web site
> itself was actually running on Unix software--specifically the Apache Web
> server and the FreeBSD operating system, according to a Netcraft query. The
> plot grew thicker the next day, when after much negative publicity the
> anti-Unix Web site was moved to a Windows 2000 server running Internet
> Information Server, Microsoft's Web server, and promptly quit working. 
>
> The whole episode was painfully reminiscent of a similar episode that occurred
> two years ago, when a highly placed source within IBM leaked to the press a
> lurid story about Microsoft and its use of the AS/400 server. 
>
> Microsoft was unable to migrate to Windows NT from some 23 AS/400s that ran an
> ERP system for the company's manufacturing division, and had to revert back to
> the AS/400, which, according to the source, was administered remotely via an
> application service provider.
>
> LOL,
>
> Jerry
>
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