RE: Microsoft thwarted again

There was an AS/400 in the "Welcome to XP" show when the machines originally
came out. Every single XP machine had a short movie and the narrator was
sitting on an AS/400.

John Brandt 
iStudio400.com 
(903) 523-0708 
Home of iS/ODBC - MSSQL access from iSeries and RPG. 




-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Heinz [mailto:bheinz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 11:45 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Microsoft thwarted again


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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