[ale] Microsoft just called...

[Jeff Hubbs]

Carl - 

Pity the poor shmoe.  Consider that yours was probably not the first such
discussion like that he'd had today and wouldn't be the last.  Yet he was
probably just acting under orders from above and will continue to do so as
long as he tolerates the slow murdering of his soul...

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Forsell [mailto:cforsell at roman.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 10:30 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Microsoft just called...
> 
> 
> Couldn't help it... had to pass this along.
> 
> Just got a phone call from M$ corporate headquarters.  They 
> were doing an
> "Industry Survey" on ISP's.
> 
> All went well untill I told him that 90% of the sites we host 
> are on Linux
> and 10% M$.  He started to ask if we would consider shifting 
> the Linux sites
> to IIS.  I asked why I would want to?
> 
> He spent 10 minutes telling me of the virtues of NT.  I interupted by
> laughing when he got to "robust" and "STABLE".  I told him 
> that even though
> 90% of the sites we host are on Linux, 90% of my time is 
> spent trying to
> keep the IIS sites up and running.  I have been keeping stats 
> to back those
> numbers up and offered to share them freely if he wished. He didn't.
> 
> At that point he thanked me for my time and hung up so he 
> could lick his
> wounds.
> 
> 
> --
> To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" 
> in message body.
> 
--
To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in message body.