Unisys: We No Longer Have A Way Out

rbochan writes "Some of you may recall a couple of years back when Microsoft and Unisys decided that a multi-million dollar ad campaign against *nix was in order, dubbed 'We Have A Way Out.' The results weren't what they'd hoped. ZDNet is now reporting that Unisys has done an about face and is now touting Linux as 'a mature technology and the right cost-effective option for many companies.'"

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Mature is right

[Anonymous Coward]

Linux is based on 1960's mainframe technology, which in computer terms means 'Jurassic'. (Mainframes are the computers that you sometimes see in the movies with flashing lights and reel-to-reel tape decks). XTerm, the Linux equivalent of cmd.exe is based on something called a 'vt100 emulator' which is another ancient piece of hardware invented by DEC back in the 1960s.

So when someone touts Linux as 'mature' you know what they really mean is "old".

Don't get me wrong, Linux and other hobbyist shareware operating systems have their place, but that place is not running cutting edge web service based applications. For that you need something a bit more up-to-date than 1960 technology, and in the modern world, that means Microsoft.

I really wish it wasn't the case, but you have to agree, Microsoft is the only practical game in town for this sort of thing.

Also the world does not 'follow tech people', it spends much of it's time cursing them and the 'technologies' such people foist on them.

Smear campaigns

[cnerd2025]

Smear campaigns only work a) if you are M$ and that is all you are capable of (can you blame them? They can't seem to make any good software, so smearing the other guy is the only acceptable solution) or b) you are against SCO, in which case nothing is actually accomplished. Well, the only thing that is accomplished is lawyers have more job-security. Smear campaigns don't work when in business. It's not like an election, when the choice is made only every term. People choose to buy or not all the time. So if you say something like Satan uses Linux, and then a few years later you state that Linux is (of course) a very good OS, then people will take it and your own words will bite you in the ass. Businesses should spend more time training the troops rather than shouting from the bleachers. If they just made reliable goods or rendered useful service and used decent marketing to inform about each, we'd have a better market economy. But as long as monopolies like M$ are able to coerce, it is a lost cause...

Re:It didn't?

[Frankie70]

  closed and proprietary world of Windows.


I didn't realize Solaris was open & non-proprietary.

I wish I posted this one earlier in the thread

[heinousjay]

Everyone break out the hand lotion and tissues, because this story is definitely meant to be a weekend wankfest.