Samba Wins eWeek & PC Magazine Award

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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Errr...so where's the announcement?

[emag]

The linked eWeek article only mentions that Samba's a finalist, and that the winners will be announced May 7. Since it's past that date, where's a link to the actual winners list? Not that I'm doubting that Samba could easily beat out the others, but I need to rub someone's nose in the fact that Samba won.

Re:Errr...so where's the announcement?

[flyfishin]

here

Samba is awesome

[TuxLuvr]

When trying to explain the Open Source philosophy to my wife, I used Samba as an example: I set up a file server for her office running Samba on FreeBSD 4.5.

When I showed her the bill for hardware and software, I pointed out that the reason she now has a blazing fast server with great hardware, under budget, is that I opted not to install Windows 2000 Server.

"So how can my Windows 2000 laptop running QuickBooks connect so seamlessly and without any crashes ever" (ok ok i'm paraphrasing..) she inquired.

I proceeded to explain the magic of Samba, and the development model which made it possible....

Thanks for great software! : - )

Re:Samba is awesome

[TuxLuvr]

You bill your wife for hardware and software?

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

; - )

Re:Samba is awesome

[hij]

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.

Samba will never really catch on ...

[shrikel]

... until it has been ported to Windows.

(It's a joke. Laugh.)

And the three are

[MosesJones]

1) Samba - Created to bypass MS braindead sharing, and to allow Linux to act as file servers, so HW and OS platform choice is irrelevant

2) Java - Created to make HW + OS Platform choice irrelevant

3) BEA, based on a standard approach to app servers that makes chosing the HW and OS a best fit decision.

Anyone spot the connection ? 3 Tools all made to bring together disparate environments.

But of course this sort of thing can't be done, you can't be modular, you can't be portable, you can't be flexible (Java comes in versions for Smart Cards, Phones, PDAs, PCs, Servers and Mainframes) I know that because the DOJ believe it.

Congrats, guys

[GMFTatsujin]

I've got a teenie three-node network at home - two Windows computers and a Mandrake server. It's not much, but it gets me there. :)

Samba is absolutely the most important service running on the server. It lets my wife and I share files, print whenever we like, and maintain private backups off of our computers. I'd put it down as the single most useful software package for anyone who wants to run a home network. It's the one we use most often and most transparently. Well, that and Squid...

When Microsoft completely and irrevocably blocks out Samba, that's when Windows goes out the door forever. But seeing as how we haven't budged from 98SE since it came out, I don't know that's really going to be a problem.

Smaba team, you folks rock my weird little computing world. Well done, and totally deserved.
GMFTatsujin

Re:Couldn't have done it without you, Microsoft

[Jeremy Allison - Sam]

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.