Something about Microsoft's servers here

[Great_Satan]

Check this out:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24364.html

[jasonlane]

quote:Originally posted by Great_Satan:
Check this out:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24364.html

Old article? I hope this happens though.

interesting post.

[Great_Satan]

I saw this part and thought it was interesting.

 

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Microsoft's server products have never been seriously considered by AOL, according to our insiders. "The licenses cost too much, their hardware requirements are excessive, they take too much labor to maintain, and we have enough security problems of our own without adding Microsoft's," says an AOL bean-counter who has access to the company's server cost numbers.

[jasonlane]

How true, I'm very surprised that AOL doesn't have these false senses of economy that so many seem have. Who would have thunk it! (still don't like or trust them though)

TCO .... Bah! PR FUD

I think that M$ has been very, very damaged over the last few months. IBM, HP and even DELL seem to be abandoning the Redmond beast with great haste. I made a predictiction a few years ago that M$ would be finished within 5 years, I still have 3 years to go.... I may even have time to spare  

[ August 13, 2003: Message edited by: Zardoz ]

[cahult]

The rats are leaving the sinking ship, eh?          

[M51DPS]

Then if only AOL's browser was open source, then maybe it wouldn't be so crappy.

[Fett101]

quote:Originally posted by M51DPS:
Then if only AOL's browser was open source, then maybe it wouldn't be so crappy.

AOL...wouldn't be so crappy... does not compute.

[jasonlane]

quote:Originally posted by Fett101:


AOL...wouldn't be so crappy... does not compute.

I agree, I trust AOL about as much as I trust M$ & $CO.

[M51DPS]

The only way AOL is intentionally evil is when they automatically sell your e-mail when you create a new screen name. Otherwise it's just that they make crappy programs.

[bigsleep]

quote:Originally posted by M51DPS:
Then if only AOL's browser was open source, then maybe it wouldn't be so crappy.

Originally they had their own browser engine, then they switched to the MSIE HTML engine (after Netscape refused to build an engine for them).

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I don't understand why they don't use Gecko now, they must be really stupid.