<< Hey ma, look at all the MS Bashers. You punks need to grow up and realize MS makes some good products and not everything goes as well as you planned. Sh1t happens and webservers crash. I hardly have IIS crash on any of the 10 web boxes at my office..dunno what their problem is. >>
Yeah, but you don't see Red Hat launching an Anti_M$ campaign and running the site for it on IIS.
<< That's pretty naive if you guys think the site is down due to an issue with Windows/IIS. >>
Well the error message I get IS an IIS message... If the server was properly configured this wouldn't be happening, sure. They didn't seem to have any problems configuring Apache on FreeBSD though.
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<< Poor planning and preparation. >>
Indeed, and that's probably the end of it. Regardless of the issue involved, it shouldn't have happened for such a simple site. We transfer sites over to our Windows or Linux boxes all the time w/o issue. >>
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Partially you just need someone who knows what they're doing. But a simple site on a properly configured BSD system can run forever. Just look at the netcraft uptime survey here. There isn't a Windows machine in the top 50.
The Saga continues....
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Anti-Unix site returns - on MySQL?
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 04/04/2002 at 18:00 GMT
The Microsoft/Unisys promotional site wehavethewayout.com, which has added so much gaiety to our lives in recent days, has returned.
Gone is the striking artwork of a naked man, tarred with purple paint and feathered with pages torn from a Solaris sysadmin's manual, leaping from a tall tower onto a Unisys ES7000.
(Actually we made that up, but as we pointed out yesterday the real artwork for the campaign was only slightly less bizarre).
In its place is a sober page inviting users to download some white papers, submit their contact information or join Unisys' eCommunity pages. On Unisys' site you can still see some of the painting imagery in teaser ads about the site.
Although the downtime was caused by moving the site to a Windows/IIS combination, wehavethewayout.com still doesn't pass the "eat your own dogfood" test, it seems.
The Unisys community pages, ironically enough, are driven by Java.
But is the site itself entirely clean? The server yesterday revealed that some interesting ports were left open. The most interesting of which is port 3306, which is used by MySQL and Postgres. Since wehavethewayout.com was a BSD/Apache combination, it was almost certainly running an open source database, too. While Unisys has switched the front-end server to Windows IIS, the most likely explanation for keeping this port open is that the back-end still interfaces to a MySQL database. MySQL is cross platform, and there's a Windows version too. This would certainly make for a rapid port, as it doesn't require a rewrite of the cgi scripts.
We'll bring you official confirmation when we hear it.
Meanwhile, non-Windows systems continue to plague Redmond. A reader sends us This link to an anecdote from AS/400 architect Frank Soltis. Microsoft ran its accounting systems on the venerable IBM system for years, leasing the systems to a contractor to give itself plausible deniability on the dogfood question. During the AntiTrust case, Microsoft claimed it could not produce computer reports of its sales ledger, claiming the billion-dollar software monopoly kept only "paper" records. Perhaps this explains why.
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Source
I love that link mentioned in the article. Apparently, MS tried to replace 23 AS/400's with 1200 Windows NT servers, only to find out that it wouldn't work, and they had to go back to AS/400.
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Anti-Unix site returns - on MySQL?
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 04/04/2002 at 18:00 GMT
The Microsoft/Unisys promotional site wehavethewayout.com, which has added so much gaiety to our lives in recent days, has returned.
Gone is the striking artwork of a naked man, tarred with purple paint and feathered with pages torn from a Solaris sysadmin's manual, leaping from a tall tower onto a Unisys ES7000.
(Actually we made that up, but as we pointed out yesterday the real artwork for the campaign was only slightly less bizarre).
In its place is a sober page inviting users to download some white papers, submit their contact information or join Unisys' eCommunity pages. On Unisys' site you can still see some of the painting imagery in teaser ads about the site.
Although the downtime was caused by moving the site to a Windows/IIS combination, wehavethewayout.com still doesn't pass the "eat your own dogfood" test, it seems.
The Unisys community pages, ironically enough, are driven by Java.
But is the site itself entirely clean? The server yesterday revealed that some interesting ports were left open. The most interesting of which is port 3306, which is used by MySQL and Postgres. Since wehavethewayout.com was a BSD/Apache combination, it was almost certainly running an open source database, too. While Unisys has switched the front-end server to Windows IIS, the most likely explanation for keeping this port open is that the back-end still interfaces to a MySQL database. MySQL is cross platform, and there's a Windows version too. This would certainly make for a rapid port, as it doesn't require a rewrite of the cgi scripts.
We'll bring you official confirmation when we hear it.
Meanwhile, non-Windows systems continue to plague Redmond. A reader sends us This link to an anecdote from AS/400 architect Frank Soltis. Microsoft ran its accounting systems on the venerable IBM system for years, leasing the systems to a contractor to give itself plausible deniability on the dogfood question. During the AntiTrust case, Microsoft claimed it could not produce computer reports of its sales ledger, claiming the billion-dollar software monopoly kept only "paper" records. Perhaps this explains why.
>>
Source
I love that link mentioned in the article. Apparently, MS tried to replace 23 AS/400's with 1200 Windows NT servers, only to find out that it wouldn't work, and they had to go back to AS/400
.LMFAO. WTF was MS thinking. Do you have to be mentally disabled to work, for them or is that all just a coincidance?
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