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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 is awesome by TuxLuvr · · Score: 5, Interesting
    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! : - )

    1. 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!

      ; - )

    2. 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.

      --
      Believe nothing -- Buddha
  2. Samba will never really catch on ... by shrikel · · Score: 5, Funny
    ... until it has been ported to Windows.

    (It's a joke. Laugh.)

    --
    Any sufficiently simple magic can be passed off as mere advanced technology.
  3. Re:Errr...so where's the announcement? by flyfishin · · Score: 5, Informative

    here

  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.