Oh lord .. hillarious.<a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-872266.html">
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-872266.html</A>
from the article:
> The "We have the way out" campaign describes Unix as an expensive trap. One ad
> reads: "No wonder Unix makes you feel boxed in. It ties you to an inflexible
> system. It requires you to pay for expensive experts. It makes you struggle
> daily with a server environment that's more complex than ever."
Here's another message about the site:
> Hang onto your hats, put down whatever you're drinking, and get ready
> to guffaw at the latest twists and turns in the grand $25+ million
> anti-Unix campaign underwritten by Unisys and Microsoft.
>
> Last week we reported that such a campaign was underway, ostensibly
> to promote lagging sales of high-end Unisys servers that use Windows
> server software. The main message being promulgated is that Unix and
> its derivatives (including operating systems by Sun and Apple,
> naturally) are too complicated and expensive for mere mortals to rely
> on. A Web site trumpeting the slogan "We have the way out," namely
> Unisys and Windows, was set up to help kick off the campaign. Unix
> and Linux programmers were said to be infuriated.
>
> However, according to ZDNet News:
>
> "On Monday, it was revealed that the site ran on Web servers powered
> by FreeBSD, an open-source version of Unix, as well as on the
> Unix-based Web server Apache. Both pieces of software compete with
> Microsoft's Windows operating system."
>
> We trust you're guffawing now. Well, it gets better. In great haste
> to avoid more embarrassment, the two partners switched the site over
> to Microsoft Internet Information Server software earlier today --
> and the site promptly died, showing either a blank white screen or an
> "Error 403" message.
>
> [And here is the URL, thanks to an Applelinks reader in New Zealand:
> http://www.wehavethewayout.com/. As of this writing, 10:28 p.m.
> Mountain Time, it still delivers a blank white page. How long will it
> take for Microsoft to get the site to display? We'll check again in
> the morning.]
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-872266.html</A>
from the article:
> The "We have the way out" campaign describes Unix as an expensive trap. One ad
> reads: "No wonder Unix makes you feel boxed in. It ties you to an inflexible
> system. It requires you to pay for expensive experts. It makes you struggle
> daily with a server environment that's more complex than ever."
Here's another message about the site:
> Hang onto your hats, put down whatever you're drinking, and get ready
> to guffaw at the latest twists and turns in the grand $25+ million
> anti-Unix campaign underwritten by Unisys and Microsoft.
>
> Last week we reported that such a campaign was underway, ostensibly
> to promote lagging sales of high-end Unisys servers that use Windows
> server software. The main message being promulgated is that Unix and
> its derivatives (including operating systems by Sun and Apple,
> naturally) are too complicated and expensive for mere mortals to rely
> on. A Web site trumpeting the slogan "We have the way out," namely
> Unisys and Windows, was set up to help kick off the campaign. Unix
> and Linux programmers were said to be infuriated.
>
> However, according to ZDNet News:
>
> "On Monday, it was revealed that the site ran on Web servers powered
> by FreeBSD, an open-source version of Unix, as well as on the
> Unix-based Web server Apache. Both pieces of software compete with
> Microsoft's Windows operating system."
>
> We trust you're guffawing now. Well, it gets better. In great haste
> to avoid more embarrassment, the two partners switched the site over
> to Microsoft Internet Information Server software earlier today --
> and the site promptly died, showing either a blank white screen or an
> "Error 403" message.
>
> [And here is the URL, thanks to an Applelinks reader in New Zealand:
> http://www.wehavethewayout.com/. As of this writing, 10:28 p.m.
> Mountain Time, it still delivers a blank white page. How long will it
> take for Microsoft to get the site to display? We'll check again in
> the morning.]
