__/ [ Mathew P. ] on Friday 31 March 2006 20:43 \__
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> On 2006-03-31, Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
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>>| Where do Unix shops who want to migrate go next? You'd think they go
>>| for Linux. Or is it Windows? It depends who's asking.
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>>| According Microsoft-commissioned research, contrary to what one might
>>| see as a natural move over from Unix to Linux, more ex-Unix shops run
>>| Windows than Linux.
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> This speaks volumes:
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>>| A survey, conducted by IDC on Microsoft's behalf, looked at 400
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>>| Unix shops, which were garnered at random from our sister title
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>>| Network World's subscriber list, according to one report.
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>> http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5691&inkc=0
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> regards,
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> Mathew
%// random: fetch random company off WWW
%// input: seed is the random seed to use
%// output: pointer to list of companies
int random(real seed){
string[400] list;
while (GetNext(global dns))
cur_site=dns.GetSite();
for (i=0; i++; i<1000)
ping(cur_site);
end
if (ping(cur_site)==0)
list.Append(cur_site)
end
return *list
}
Please don't debug silly pseudo (alliteration). *smile*
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