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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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    Any sufficiently simple magic can be passed off as mere advanced technology.
  2. 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!

    ; - )

  3. 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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    Believe nothing -- Buddha
  4. 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.