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Post #40,085 by Andrew Grygus 5/27/02 5:34:42 PM Reply	Microsoft was never there. Oil exploration was the territory of traditional supercomputers. Microsoft has never had a prayer of an offering in that market -"Boss, I recommend we save money by replacing the Cray with a quad pentium IV running Windows 2000" would indeed get you fired. When an oil company needs a new super, they build a Linux cluster, because their applications are appropriate for cluster processing (not all supercomputer applications are). Unfortunately, most high profile Linux success stories are not about replacing Microsoft. They are, however, sometimes about locking Microsoft out in the future. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #40,118 by orion 5/27/02 10:25:58 PM Reply	Well for one place I worked at they got rid of a Wang with a server with 4 Pentium Pro Processors and Windows NT. Don't ask me why, I just worked there. The powers that be had decided that the NT Server would do more good than the Wang system. The head Wang guy became the Office Snitch to protect his job, get the dirt on other people or make stuff up if he couldn't get any dirt. Why? Because he hardly had any NT experience and all his Wang skills were not obsolite. Of course we offered to teach him Visual BASIC, VBA, HTML, etc but he rejected it. Doctoring photos in Photoshop and editing Wav files to make others look guilty was too much fun for him. *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*
Post #40,413 by CRConrad 5/29/02 7:46:57 PM Reply	Stop rehashing old shit - go choose a new destiny instead!

Linux invades replicated sites. (" - (brettj) - (10) - May 23, 2002, 10:26:44 AM EDT

Linux grabs big win with Reuters, in case you missed it. - (brettj) - (9) - May 24, 2002, 03:28:42 AM EDT

It's a good value proposition - (ben_tilly) - (8) - May 24, 2002, 07:38:41 AM EDT

Plus the speed is surprising many. - (brettj) - (7) - May 27, 2002, 10:30:29 AM EDT

Nothing new here, except . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (6) - May 27, 2002, 11:00:21 AM EDT

Could IBM's mastery of the subtle undermining scenario - (Ashton) - May 27, 2002, 03:45:49 PM EDT

Say goodbye to MS-Shops - (orion) - (3) - May 27, 2002, 04:00:29 PM EDT

Microsoft was never there. - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - May 27, 2002, 05:34:42 PM EDT

Well for one place I worked at - (orion) - (1) - May 27, 2002, 10:25:58 PM EDT

Stop rehashing old shit - go choose a new destiny instead! -NT - (CRConrad) - May 29, 2002, 07:46:57 PM EDT

Ah yes. Amerada Hess & Schlumberger. - (brettj) - May 28, 2002, 10:24:48 AM EDT

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