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Samba Wins eWeek & PC Magazine Award

Posted by timothy on from the infrastruction-and-stiflement dept.

frankie_guasch writes: "The award is "Innovation in Infrastructure" (i3) award for best Enterprise Software! And we beat out Sun Microsystems Java 2 Platform Standard Edition Version 1.4 and Bea Systems WebLogic Server 7.0 for the award, so I'm stunned that we won. These guys have marketing departments and a *budget.*" It's a strange contrast to the kind of attention that Samba is getting from Microsoft. (See these earlier posts for more on the CIFS situation.)

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  1. Samba will never really catch on ... by shrikel · · Score: 5, Funny
    ... until it has been ported to Windows.

    (It's a joke. Laugh.)

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    1. Re:Samba will never really catch on ... by user32.ExitWindowsEx · · Score: 2, Funny

      You might have to, to maintain forward compatibility with newer versions of Windows.

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      "Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." -- Dark Helmet
  2. Re:Samba is awesome by DarkRabbit · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... When I showed her the bill for hardware and software, ...

    You bill your wife for hardware and software?

  3. Re:Samba is awesome by TuxLuvr · · Score: 5, Funny
    You bill your wife for hardware and software?

    LOL...yeah, I showed her the bill.... then I paid it!

    ; - )

  4. Couldn't have done it without you, Microsoft by inveterate+revisioni · · Score: 2, Funny

    Isn't it amazing that a ubiquitous software company's (MS) ill-designed (SMB), poorly implemented (NETBios) system for exposing resources to a network has become so pervasive and constricting that the IT industry starts giving _high_ _honors_ to an open-source product (Samba) that essentially embodies an acknowledgment that SMB will not evolve into something more sensible (NFS, for example) any time soon? So what should the authors say at the acceptance ceremony? "Thanks Microsoft. We couldn't have done it without you!"

    1. Re:Couldn't have done it without you, Microsoft by Jeremy+Allison+-+Sam · · Score: 5, Funny

      Nope, I thanked Richard Stallman for creating the GPL and the FSF for helping us with legal issues :-).

      And I had to wear a suit :-) :-).

      Here is proof :-) :-)

      Jeremy Allison,
      Samba Team.

  5. Re:Samba is awesome by hij · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's weird. I did the same thing, but when I was done my wife only asked about the other things on the "to do" list.

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