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| Microsoft only had a brief moment on the Top 500 supercomputer list before
| the machine was rebooted as a Linux cluster last fall.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=B2413430-EEAF-455C-9D85-706DC25D148D
I heard stories from Web hosts and saw the GoDaddy case, which ought to have
shown that Microsoft happily /pays/ just to give people an illusion. This can
be a case where they pay Novell/Xandros/Linspire for pseudo support for OOXML
and IP FUD. This can also be market share.
Open Source Fights Back
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| Question: The OpenSourceParking.com announcement cites a Netcraft
| report, which found that GoDaddy.com's migration from Linux to Windows
| caused Apache to lose server share. Was this event the sole impetus
| for OpenSourceParking.com?
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| Perens: Not the first. It's part of a continuing behavior pattern by
| Microsoft that I think it's fair to call "dirty fighting." GoDaddy was
| using Apache (I assume on Linux) because it was a great technical
| solution. They didn't switch to IIS on Windows Server 2003 for any
| technical reason. The switch was accompanied by a press release by
| GoDaddy, containing Microsoft promotional language. Now, I've changed
| many servers from one thing to another, but I've never made a press
| release about it. GoDaddy wouldn't be doing that unless Microsoft had
| offered them something valuable in return. There has been talk in the
| domain business that Microsoft has been offering the large domain
| registries a wad of cash to switch their parked sites. There is no
| other reason to do this than to influence the Netcraft figures.
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http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=15108
Always check the fact (the real facts, not "The Facts") before reaching the
wrong conclusion that lands in Microsoft's shiny pamphlets. Earlier today I
read more about this GoDaddy thing. It turned out that they published a press
release to say that Linux got replaced at GoDaddy when it fact it was Windows
2000 that got replaced. Can you spell "liars"?
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