Not anymore - go to www.netcraft.com

They're using Win2k with IIS 5.0

Mike

>
>Talking about MS & Linux, when Microsoft first took over hotmail it was
>running on Solaris, microsoft moved it over to NT, found out that NT
>couldn't handle worth a damn, so what did they do...moved back over to
>solaris...bottom line, microsoft do use *nix.
>
>    Robert.
>
>
>>From: Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!
>>Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:05:50 -0500
>>
>>In my mind, it seems like running something in wine is a bit of a kludge -
>>especially a full blown productivity app...
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 10:05 AM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!
>>
>>
>>
>> > hmm, maybe i'm just naive but so what if MS bails out Corel as far as
>>linux
>> >  goes.  There is/was nothing stopping MS from creating their own
>>distribution
>> >  of linux nor stopping them from building applications for Linux.  I
>>can't
>> >  believe that there aren't any MS programmers running linux at
>home (or
>>at
>> >  work) and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that apache is running
>> >  somewhere in that company.
>>
>>Just a thought here.  Corel has successfully (not in my opinion but in the
>>minds of some) ported their Office suite to Linux using Wine.  If you dig
>>very
>>deeply you find that within MS there's a debate about whether they
>>should/shouldn't produce MS Office for Linux.  Could there be a
>connection?
>>Spin is everything these days it seems.  Just thought I'd suggest
>that this
>>story might have a positive spin in the end.
>>
>>Cheers --- Larry
>>
>>
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