Re: Microsoft thwarted again

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Uh, the serious money is saying that the 400's are still running MS...



On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Bill Heinz wrote:

> 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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