[ale] AOL sues Microsoft

Matt Shade mshade at threekay.com
Wed Jan 23 22:45:33 EST 2002


Actually, they use more HPUX boxes than anything else, if I'm not mistaken.
I know HP has support of "several" thousand HP9000's. Don't know if there
are several more linux boxen or not.

matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Fowler" <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "rhiannen" <rhiannen at atlantacon.org>; <ALE at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 22:07
Subject: RE: [ale] AOL sues Microsoft


> I'll tell you guys a little secret.
>
> I've been to AOL corporate and this is what the admins told me.
>
> "We do not use Microsoft products where mission cirtical data is
concerned"
> "We use either Linux or Solaris"
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhia at wyvern.the-weyr.local [mailto:rhia at wyvern.the-weyr.local]On
> Behalf Of rhiannen
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 9:41 PM
> To: ALE at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] AOL sues Microsoft
>
>
> Hmmm.....  One monstrous, company swallowing, job-reducing, personnel
> steamrollering, intelligence insulting, least common denominator geared
> product creating, media twisting mega-corp suing another monstrous,
> company swallowing, job-reducing, personnel steamrollering, intelligence
> insulting, least common denominator geared product creating, media
> twisting mega-corp for anti-competitive behavior...
>
> Nope, don't see anything hypocritical about that...
>
> <<Disclaimer for the humor impaired:  The above is sarcasm, possibly not
> pure sarcasm, but close to +/- 3 parts of 97% sarcasm. ;) >>
>
> --
> rhia
> knowledge is power - arm yourself
>
>
> Chris Fowler wrote:
> >
> > Wow.  Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark [mailto:mph at bravo-64-128-248-9.telocity.com]On Behalf Of Mark
> > Hurley
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 8:45 PM
> > To: ALE
> > Subject: Re: [ale] AOL sues Microsoft
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:26:17PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> > > If someone else posted it, I missed it.  Did you folks see that AOL is

> > > suing Microsoft on anti-trust issues?
> >
> > And for those without a link...here is one...
> >
> >
>
http://chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0201230277jan23.story?coll=chi%2Dbusi
> > ness%2Dhed
> >
> > Mark Hurley
>
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