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Microsoft Loses Showdown in Houston
An anonymous reader writes "It seems the city of Houston has decided against using Microsoft software. It really is amazing how much it costs to use (and maintain) software. I can't help but wonder if this will become a trend." Turns out they decided on the relativly unknown SimDesk suite, which has nothing to do with The Sims, sadly. Many, many posts about this. In additional news seldo writes "There's an interesting interview on News.Com with Peter Houston. He discusses Microsoft's changing attitude in competing with Linux -- no longer calling it a "cancer" but instead promoting the advantages of Windows."
Check out this Unisys Newsletter. It says:
As an ASP, Unisys will host SimDesk on the Unisys ES7000, the only enterprise server taking advantage of the Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server operating system's support for 32-processor scalability.
Not exactly a "big defeat" for Microsoft. They still make money on licensing servers.
I don't think m$ totally lost out on this one unfortunately. After quickly visiting SimDesk's site, I noticed they were using asp. Sure enough, after a quick lookup:
The site simdesk.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
Is it just me that this strikes as odd?