But wait, there's more! I quote from today's edition of Brit newspaper The Independent:
[quote]You couldn't make it up. Microsoft and Unisys have launched an attack on Unix, by setting up a website at wehavethewayout.com to persuade big corporations to switch from using that operating system to something more, well, lucrative for Microsoft, actually.
Sure enough, the site came online on 29 March. Net denizens quickly checked it out via netcraft.com, which says which system a site is running. Strike one! It was running on FreeBSD, which is an open-source (as in free) version of Unix.
Oh dear. By 2 April, someone had noticed and shifted it over to Microsoft's IIS system. Hurrah! Except they forgot to set it up. Strike two! "Virtual directory listing denied" it told visitors for a while, before changing its tune on 3 April to "No website is conifigured at this address". Strike three!
So the lesson is, if you're a big corporation and want to set up a website quickly and reliably, use Unix. If you want to make a prat of yourself, try Microsoft.<hr></blockquote>
But wait, there's even more. A few days ago, the Independent ran a sniggersome little follow-up:
[quote] A postscript to our note last week about the Microsoft-Unisys web site (at wehavethewayout.com) set up to tell people not to use Unix ? which ran on Unix. Smartly, the duo switched it over to Window; but apparently the back-end is powered by MySQL, an open-source database system for...Unix. Has anyone been shown the way out yet? <hr></blockquote>
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<strong><a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0204/02.unix.php"; target="_blank">Another</a> fantastic MS own goal! <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
MS really suck <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
[quote]You couldn't make it up. Microsoft and Unisys have launched an attack on Unix, by setting up a website at wehavethewayout.com to persuade big corporations to switch from using that operating system to something more, well, lucrative for Microsoft, actually.
Sure enough, the site came online on 29 March. Net denizens quickly checked it out via netcraft.com, which says which system a site is running. Strike one! It was running on FreeBSD, which is an open-source (as in free) version of Unix.
Oh dear. By 2 April, someone had noticed and shifted it over to Microsoft's IIS system. Hurrah! Except they forgot to set it up. Strike two! "Virtual directory listing denied" it told visitors for a while, before changing its tune on 3 April to "No website is conifigured at this address". Strike three!
So the lesson is, if you're a big corporation and want to set up a website quickly and reliably, use Unix. If you want to make a prat of yourself, try Microsoft.<hr></blockquote>
[quote] A postscript to our note last week about the Microsoft-Unisys web site (at wehavethewayout.com) set up to tell people not to use Unix ? which ran on Unix. Smartly, the duo switched it over to Window; but apparently the back-end is powered by MySQL, an open-source database system for...Unix. Has anyone been shown the way out yet? <hr></blockquote>
[ 04-29-2002: Message edited by: The Blue Meanie ]</p>
As usual, word travels quickly in America.