Making Linux A Google Product
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Something can only fail if it is proving to be no use to others. Speaking for a large number of Linux users, I find it to be quite useful every single day. And despite the outright lies of what Microsoft users call the “Linux marketshare”, derived with magic as it is difficult to calculate the market presence of something that is not easily tracked by license codes or dollar signs, Linux is doing quite well.
So who really cares if Chrome OS does well assuming Google ever gets around to backing up the claims to the OS in the first place? I mean, I am not convinced that we really need Chrome OS. See, most Linux users are fine with Linux as it is. It’s here, usable, stable and works pretty damned well.
Besides, if Linux is the choice for Microsoft’s own decision engine, clearly, it’s good enough for the rest of us saps running Windows Server…hey, wait a minute! Microsoft is using Linux? Odd, perhaps this means we can say 2009 is the year of Linux then? Just saying….
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Dave Howe
August 16th, 2009
at 3:35am
Its a bit unfair to post that link to bing, when in fact that goes to the Akamai geodistribution system that front ends and locally caches bing (and yahoo, and google for that matter) at isps worldwide.
I am pretty sure solaris and linux are in common usage at microsoft, but this isn’t a particularly good example of it.
Chris Johnson
August 17th, 2009
at 7:36pm
I became aware of this from a link in an article…
I’m intrigued as to why Microsoft seems to think that their new bing.com search engine website is being run on a server that runs a Linux-based Operating System instead of one of Microsoft’s own Servers Systems like Windows Server 2008. Does this mean that Microsoft doesn’t trust their own product (Windows Server 2008) to run another one of it’s products bing.com)???
The link below is the proof… Notice the report shows the owner is of course Microsoft and that the OS is Linux but the Server is unknown…
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.bing.com
A quick glance at other sites like google.com, msn.com, yahoo.com, apple.com, ubuntu.com, and microsoft.com reveal that msn.com runs on Windows Server 2003 under an IIS 6.0 server while the current Microsoft website runs on a Windows Server 2008 System under IIS 7.5…
So is bing.com running some kind of proof of concept Linux based IIS style Microsoft server? Or is there something I’m missing?
Chris Johnson
Chris Johnson
August 17th, 2009
at 7:39pm
Sorry, I was going to send that as an email… I would wonder about this being the type of thing that could run rampant as a viral email –IF– it were that M$ was running Linux because it was more stable than Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.5… nEway