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Servers with a Smile

Posted by michael on from the would-you-like-fries-with-that dept.

9jack9 writes "Fortune Magazine has this article entitled Servers with a Smile. While they probably get almost as much wrong as they get right, it's still an interesting article, if for no other reason than it's in Fortune, with a readership undoubtedly consisting of people more focused on business than technology. To me the strange thing is that in portions of the computing world Linux and related phenomena (GNU/Linux, OSS, etc) does seem to be "the hottest thing", but in other parts of the computing world it is all but invisible. It reminds me of NT in the early days. There is also a related article Does Software Yearn to be Free?."

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  1. After a bit of slashdotting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    the server goes from :-) to ;-( to X-|

  2. Quote... by *xpenguin* · · Score: 5, Funny

    it's such a good thing, he said, that Oracle had just taken 3,800 lines of its own proprietary code, developed over more than a decade, and posted it on the Internet for all the world to see. "We're trying to be a good member of the community," he said.

    Heh, 3,800 lines developed over a decade. More like a month of work.

  3. Software Yearns To Be Free! by wiredog · · Score: 5, Funny

    But programmers yearn to be paid.

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  4. So I guess Ellison's message is.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Linux is great! It's free! But MySQL and PostgreSQL are the devil!"