Thursday, April 04, 2002

Anti-Unix Site Hosted on a FreeBSD Box


Posted by Jim at 2:08AM EST
Oh the irony.

Several sites have reported on this already, but not with the flair and panache that 2CPU.com regulars are accustomed to. So here goes: In an article written a few days ago by CNET, it became apparent that Microsoft and Unisys were joining together in a collective marketing campaign to basically undermine Unix (which is the "Big Box" OS of choice of several competitors).
Unisys is spending $25 million on the campaign, spokeswoman Pasha Ray said. Microsoft is adding funding of its own but declined to say how much.
Interesting. Furthermore, it appears a website has been constructed to aid them in this regard. "Wehavethewayout.com" shows the Microsoft/Unisys initiative. This is where the fun begins: Let's cruise over to NSI and it's marvelous whois function:
Domain Name: WEHAVETHEWAYOUT.COM
Administrative Contact, Billing Contact:
UNISYS CORPORATION (K4608-OR) hostmaster@unisys.com
UNISYS CORPORATION
Ok, so we know this isn't some evil hoax, Unisys registered the bloody domain.

I wonder what netcraft can tell us:
The site www.wehavethewayout.com is running Rapidsite/Apa-1.3.14 (Unix) FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.5a on FreeBSD.
Hehe, this warms my heart. Of course, this is not something we're unaccustomed to with Microsoft (Hotmail.com anyone?).

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