It's true: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.wehavethewayout.com
says: The site www.wehavethewayout.com is running Rapidsite/Apa-1.3.14 (Unix) FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.5a on FreeBSD. FAQ FreeBSD users include www.yahoo.com, The Apache Project and Sony Japan I think an appropriate response would be to send UniSys emails congratulating them on their choice of Unix and free software to run the anti-Unix website. John Hebert --- Ron Spruell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Microsoft-Led Campaign Against Unix > Uses Web Site Running on the Software > > By LEE GOMES > Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL > > > A Web site funded by Microsoft Corp. urging > businesses to avoid the Unix > operating system is itself running on Unix, the > latest example of Microsoft > benefiting from the competitive software even while > criticizing it. > > The site is connected with a new advertising > campaign called "We Have The Way > Out" that is co-sponsored by Unisys Corp. and > Microsoft. The purpose of the > campaign is to persuade corporate computing > customers to use computers running > Microsoft's Windows operating system instead of > Unix, a rival operating system. > Ads associated with the campaign say Unix "makes you > feel boxed in. It ties you > to an inflexible system. It requires you to pay for > expensive experts." > > But the Web site that is part of the campaign > doesn't use Windows for its > operations. Instead, it uses a free "open source" > version of Unix called > FreeBSD, along with another piece of free software > called the "Apache" Web > server. Both products compete with Microsoft > offerings, and both are extremely > popular on Internet sites. > > A Microsoft spokesman declined to comment. A > spokesman for Unisys, which is > taking the lead in the campaign, said the Web site > had been set up outside of > the company by a third-party Internet-service > provider. > > The fact that a Web site used by a key Microsoft > partner would itself be relying > on Unix highlights the predicament Microsoft is in > as it tries to expand the > dominion of its Windows products. > > Unix, especially the free open-source versions such > as Linux and FreeBSD, are > the biggest obstacles to Microsoft's expansion > plans, and the company mounts > periodic campaigns against the software. > > Last year, for example, Microsoft embarked on a > public-relations campaign trying > to convince businesses that open-source software > could jeopardize their > intellectual property, because of the licensing > requirements associated with the > software. But that campaign was undercut by the > disclosure that Microsoft itself > has been a user of various forms of open-source > software, including inside its > huge Hotmail messaging service. > > There are a number of standard Internet tools that > can be used to determine what > operating system a Web site is running; the site > www.netcraft.com also provides > the information for many sites. > > The fact that the Microsoft-Unisys site is running > on Unix was discovered by > Mark Fromm, a Unix system administrator at a > Kirkland, Wash., medical-device > company. Mr. Fromm, an ardent fan of Unix, said he > was bothered by the > statements being made in the anti-Unix campaign, and > out of curiosity decided to > check on the Web site. > > "I was very surprised by what I found," he said. "I > thought it was interesting > that Microsoft was saying that people should go to > Windows, but that they were > using Unix to say it." > > Guy Esnouf, a spokesman for Unisys, said the > campaign is intended to highlight a > high-end Unisys machine called the ES7000 Enterprise > Server, an expensive system > running sophisticated corporate-computing > applications, such as very large data > bases. > > "We are talking about using Windows for those kinds > of problems; we are not > talking about hosting a simple Web site," he said. > > Write to Lee Gomes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Updated April 1, 2002 > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings.yahoo.com/ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
