I recently put Google ads on some of my web pages, and thought it was humorous that one of the ads appearing on the Linux related pages is from Microsoft, with a link to their Get The Facts propaganda. (Google ads displays random ads that are relevant to the content of the page).
You can see this at http://www.open2space.com/linux/ or one of the article pages. You might have to reload the page a few times to see the MS ad. Shawn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Frank Ledderhof Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [clug-talk] Bill running scared Guess who's advertising on Linuxplanet.com? Yep, our old friend Bill. He wants us to be aware that "Mainframe Linux was found to be 10x more expensive than Windoze Server 2003". I see you protesting; the denial is palpable. But it must be true: after all, it's right there in black and white, and the study was audited by the META Group. Yep, $40/MB/s for M$ vs $415 for Mainframe Linux. Can't provide a link (it's a Flash ad) but a quick surf to the Linuxplanet.com home page will show the ad in question. The "get the facts" button takes you to http://www.microsoft.com/getthefacts Must be a popular web page. It renders as a plain text screen with the message: >>>Gateway Timeout >>>The following error occurred: >>>Server unreachable >>>Please contact the administrator. Sure glad it's being served by Server 2k3! Cheap _and_ reliable! ROFL That little old penguin must really be making Bill nervous. What's next? Guys in suits picketing Linux vendors with leaflets? I'm racking my brain trying to find a business analogy, but...the irony is obvious. Good grief! Frank -- Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. -Harry Emerson Fosdick, preacher and author (1878-1969) _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
