Linuxworld Fun

Posted by michael on Tuesday August 13, 2002 @04:00AM from the give-Cmdrtaco-a-wedgie-for-extra-karma dept.

The Linuxworld Expo is now in full swing, and there's a variety of news. The BBC has an overview. Microsoft has a booth at the Expo in the section intended for "new, up-and-coming companies". Sun is rolling out servers running Linux. And VA Software - Slashdot's owner - is moving Sourceforge.net to IBM's database software.

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Good for MS by DavidLeblond · 2002-08-13 04:08 · Score: 0, Troll

If their intent IS as good as it claims, then I say good for Microsoft. Of course, would them sticking their hands in Open Source make things better or worse?

And IS their intent as good as it claims?
Re:I can just see it now... by yatest5 · 2002-08-13 04:48 · Score: 0, Troll

At some point... every single linux geek in the entire place is going to collectively turn to and point at the Microsoft booth, and then in unison, laugh their asses off, when one of the machines bsod's.

Is that right after every MS user has sneered at the downright WANK office suites on Linux? Or any one of the other good features of MS software? Uptime isn't everything you know!
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Re:Slashdot to change? by fv · 2002-08-13 08:48 · Score: 0, Troll

> No, they want to have the corporate version of sourceforge run on DB2
> and WebSphere. My guess is that VA Software won't be migrating
> sourceforge.net.

Here is the first line of their press release:
"OSDN today announced that SourceForge.net, the world's largest Open Source development web site, will run exclusively on IBM's DB2 database software for Linux -- including SourceForge.net's 460,000 registered users and the 45,000 Open Source software development projects hosted on the site."