So, if what you say is factual, then ms's brag about being used by nasdaq
is hot air - a gross overexaggeration of importance. Would you agree?
Then it is more like a few employees use it on desktops because they use
it at home. Still, someone needs to ream ms for this. They might as well
be painted with there own hot tar. They have no mercy for us.
Smitty
On Saturday 30 June 2001 12:59, you wrote:
> AFAIK, not Linux :) But there are a series of VMS clusters and IBM
> mainframes. In fact, if you want to make an argument against Microsoft -
> as far as I know there is no Microsoft system that is mission critical.
>
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Smitty <76543a@mpinet.net>
> Reply-To: slug@nks.net
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] ms brag implodes!
> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:40:52 -0400
>
> On Friday 29 June 2001 23:17, you wrote:
> > The Nasdaq uses many types of computer systems. How do you know if it
>
> was
>
> > the Microsoft system and not another one?
>
> What other other operating systems do they use? Tell us.
> Smitty
>
> > ----Original Message Follows----
> > From: Smitty <76543a@mpinet.net>
> > Reply-To: slug@nks.net
> > To: slug@nks.net
> > Subject: [SLUG] ms brag implodes!
> > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 18:26:14 -0400
> >
> > For those sluggers who follow the daily events:
> > Today the computer system used at nasdaq crashed for an hour.
> > Recall the advertisements in magazines last year where ms touted
> > that home shopping network and nasdaq used windows 2000?
> > nasdaq makes money on trade volume and this was a rallying week.
> > How much money do you think they lost?
> > Smitty
> >
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