[ale] Unisys and Microsoft's way out

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

My understanding is that the site went down when they tried to move it to
IIS.  Clearly they didn't learn their lessons from the Hotmail
incident.  Serves them right, eh?

If anyone is interested, there is also a site that has cropped up called
WeHaveTheWayIn.com and it is exactly what it sounds like:  a counterpoint
to the Microsoft/Unisys site, suggesting Linux, *BSD, or other unices be
used instead of Microsquishie.  There was also a link in there somewhere
(I think it was under the Linux page) that pointed to a "12-step program"
to ditch M$.  Pretty cool.


On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Charles Shapiro wrote:

> Oh mah gawd. I just got a phone call from a Unisys salesman who
> apparently thought I had gotten an email ad (spam?) re the
> "wehavethewayout" site. I reckon his long-term goal was to sell me one
> of those 32-way ES7000 Winders systems. I reckon it'd crash Windows 95
> pretty way fast. He was very courteous, even when I told him that we're
> using Open Source and lovin' it.  He also claimed that the site (
> http://wehavethewayout.com ) was back on the air. Alas, when I checked
> it five minutes ago it turned out that he was mistaken.
>
> So it goes in the wonderful world of closed-source software marketing.
> I'll email the two pdfs I pulled off the site for if requested.
>
> -- CHS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Shapiro
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 9:19 AM
> To: 'Calvin Harrigan'
> Cc: 'ale at ale.org'
> Subject: RE: [ale] Unisys and Microsoft's way out
>
>
> Oh this is rich. I signed up on their site to take a look at the white
> papers.
> Here's a quote from the one on the Unisys ES7000, the largest Windows
> machine currently available.
>
> <<snip>>
>
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