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Wal-Mart, Moore's Law and Open Source

Posted by timothy on from the deep-thoughts dept.

J.E. Kazor writes: "In MIT's 'Technology Review' magazine, Michael Schrage writes about Wal-Mart, Moore's Law, and Open Source. Perhaps instead of spending all of our energy bashing bashing the 800-pound gorilla, Microsoft, we should align the support of a 900-pound gorilla, such as Wal-Mart. Such a symbol of cost conscious efficiency should embrace the benefits of Open Source."

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  1. WalMart runs IIS5 on Linux ???? by DickBreath · · Score: 1, Redundant

    If you go to NetCraft's What's that site running?, and enter www.walmart.com, you get back the following.....

    The site www.walmart.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 (WindowsNT) on Linux.

    Could it mean the web server is IIS, but the IP stack of some frond end router or getaway is Linux?

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