[ILUG] Totally [OT] Microsoft Ireland go Linux !!!!

[Aengus]

<awhalley at eircom.net> wrote:

> My boss asked me to register for the .NET conference at UCD.
> http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/events/details02.asp
> I said OK after I realised there would be a drinks reception.
> So I duly went to the above page to register.
>
> Pressed --> click here to register.
> Imagine my suprise when I was whisked away to
>
> http://www.jigsawmanagement.ie/visualstudio.htm
>
> As the site operated too quickly my suspicions were roused.
>
> I put www.jigsawmanagement.ie into www.netcraft.com.
>
> To my merryment the jigsaw lads are running APACHE on Linux
>
> Obvoiusly M$ do not trust the managment of
> an important event like the release of its new development
> technology to any Micheal Mouse platform.

Jigsawmanagement manage Events - trade shows, etc. It's fairly normal
practice to have specialists in event management handle the registration
and setup of Conferences and Trade Shows. I'm sure we'd see all sorts of
nasty comments on the list if Microsoft refused to business with any
companies that weren't using IIS.

By the way, if you'd queried the jigsawmanagement server directly, you'd
see it's running FrontPage on it's Apache server.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:10:30 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) PHP/4.0.6 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510
Last-Modified: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 10:11:48 GMT
ETag: "6a5816-1a90-3ad6d0e4"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 6800
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

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