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SubjectRe: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux?
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.990312164105.119B-100000@superfunhappyslide.jonmuzak.
com>, Ewan Dunbar writes:
+-----
| Is Microsoft now running Hotmail on Linux? I heard so, and lynx reports
| the server to be Apache. I think this is bad news. It's showing that
+--->8

Rot. Kindly remember that they had a very embarrassing situation when the
bought Hotmail, forced a migration from Solaris to NT... and then had to move
back because NT just plain couldn't cope. And I assure you that Microsoft
fears Sun *at least* as they do us --- probably more so; Scott McNealy is
quite visible and quite happy to needle Microsoft in public, in venues that
we can't currently touch because we aren't major CEOs and therfore lack a
certain credibility with the target audience.

As such, Hotmail on Linux would actually be saving face for them; sure, Linux
is a threat, but the thought of McNealy gloating over how Microsoft's free
mail service runs on *his* company's OS just has to be galling.

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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.

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