It's unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux (Computerworld)
Aruba Networks was selected to provide the networking equipment for what is considered to be one of the world's largest next-generation wireless LANs, serving more than 25,000 simultaneous users a day in some 60 countries. According to an Aruba press statement, Microsoft's new WLAN will be deployed in 277 buildings covering more than 17 million square feet using Aruba mobility controllers, mobility software and some 5000 wireless access points. What the press statement didn't mention is that Aruba mobility controllers run the Linux operating system which Microsoft has aggressively targeted as being inferior to Windows as part of its "Get the Facts" marketing campaign." (Thanks to Frankie D.)
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It's unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux (Computerworld)
Posted Nov 3, 2005 23:10 UTC (Thu) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link]
I'm sorry to have to do this, but...
HAAAAA HAAAAA! :p
It's unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux (Computerworld)
Posted Nov 3, 2005 23:16 UTC (Thu) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link]
It was only a matter of time. I mean, if you have installed HP or Compaq servers within the past 5 years or so, you've used a version of Red Hat 7.3 to do the BIOS/OS setup. I don't know the primary hardware vendors within Microsoft, but at least some of their infrastructure is probably based on HP/Compaq stuffs (please correct me if I'm wrong).
Linux is everywhere, quietly, quickly, and unobtrusively doing whatever you tell it to do.
It could be worse Dept.
Posted Nov 4, 2005 0:11 UTC (Fri) by Ed_L. (guest, #24287) [Link]
Not necessarilly doing what you *want* it to, understand. Merely doing what you *told* it to...
:-)
It could be worse Dept.
Posted Nov 4, 2005 0:26 UTC (Fri) by dmaxwell (guest, #14010) [Link]
Not necessarilly doing what you *want* it to, understand. Merely doing what you *told* it to...
And that is why my machine at home is always called Amelia_Bedelia.
It's unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux (Computerworld)
Posted Nov 4, 2005 0:10 UTC (Fri) by jhardin (guest, #3297) [Link]
Okay, start the timer on this deal being cancelled... :)
It's unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux (Computerworld)
Posted Nov 4, 2005 0:24 UTC (Fri) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]
" What the press statement didn't mention is that Aruba mobility controllers run the Linux operating system which Microsoft has aggressively targeted as being inferior to Windows "
bahh! i hate to be a party breacker but... it dosent mean much, if anything relevant. Only makes Linuxers feel a little happy and lower their deffences....in the meanwhile, Linux stays there in servitude where Microsoft wants it to stay forever.
www.microsoft.com served by Akamai
Posted Nov 4, 2005 1:29 UTC (Fri) by sladen (subscriber, #27402) [Link]
After the DDoS incidents in 2003, Microsoft switched their websites to be served though the distributed Akamai proxy/cache network. For a while, this appeared on Netcraft as the "impossible" combination of MS/IIS running on Linux---being what the front-end machines are running:
If using your competitors' products helps you to sell more of your own products, then it is something worth doing.
...However, if customers begin buying those competition products, it starts to become attractive to transition from a vendor, in to a (value-added) reseller of those competitors' product.
www.microsoft.com served by Akamai
Posted Nov 4, 2005 2:49 UTC (Fri) by lutchann (subscriber, #8872) [Link]
I don't know that Microsoft considers itself a competitor in the telecom/network infrastructure market. Could you really imagine an Ethernet switch or 802.11 AP running Windows CE? (I envision an iPAQ with a dozen pairs of fibre hanging off it...)
www.microsoft.com served by Akamai
Posted Nov 5, 2005 12:38 UTC (Sat) by gnb (subscriber, #5132) [Link]
They certainly did at one point. I worked for a company that portedWinCE to one of its DSL router + 802.11AP products. It never went
anywhere commercially because you end up with a bigger flash and memory
footprint than most embedded OSes and WinCE's main strength, the
integrated GUI, is irrelevant. But yes, they did try for that market, and
the announcement is a measure of their success, or lack thereof.
www.microsoft.com served by Akamai
Posted Nov 4, 2005 3:28 UTC (Fri) by canbaby (guest, #28798) [Link]
Tha's the business law, no enemy forever, and no friend forever.There are only profit.
www.microsoft.com served by Akamai
Posted Nov 4, 2005 19:08 UTC (Fri) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]
???meanwhile "that" is going to stay a microsoft network though it runs Linux ?
Its going to be publicized like that and viewed like that for the large majority of users and decision makers. Where's the *real* gain of Linux in that, since servers(servitude) are not visible ?
bashing-linux-sponsored dept?
Posted Nov 5, 2005 8:40 UTC (Sat) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]
Relax, poor silly troll. If you are sponsored by Microsoft, then you're masquerading not enough; and if not, then you've missed upon their campaign to feed trolls like you, literally.
Wake up and be human, not a troll. We have a lot more to do than debate over byties. And there is some honor in telling truth, be it pleasant or not.
Wake up, human. We love you and not the troll :-)
bashing-linux-sponsored dept?
Posted Nov 5, 2005 16:45 UTC (Sat) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]
" Relax, poor silly troll... If you are sponsored by Microsoft, then you're masquerading not enough "
Good... so full of confidence!... that's what Linux need!
That's a good jooke also... if you have been posting recently i belive you are wellcame... that if isn't you yourself sponsered by M$ or something worst.
That childish talk, i haven't herd for a long time but remember that unfortunately graveyards are full of youngsters that were very stupid, very brave, and stumbled on their over pridely confidente. That is not a threat its a constatation of a fact.
bashing-linux-sponsored dept?
Posted Nov 5, 2005 22:24 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
unfortunately graveyards are full of youngstersIn my experience oldsters are heavily over-represented in your average non-wartime graveyard.
Microsoft finally gets ...
Posted Nov 4, 2005 1:02 UTC (Fri) by NZheretic (guest, #409) [Link]
the Business Case for Microsoft and Open Source
Not a big deal
Posted Nov 4, 2005 2:51 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]
I think Microsoft just doesn't target access points. It's not like Aruba even has an opportunity to run Windows on its hardware. Microsoft has products for PDAs, media centers, even for cars, but not for access points. Neither is Microfots going to install Linux on those devices - I'm pretty sure Linux comes preinstalled.
heh
Posted Nov 5, 2005 8:46 UTC (Sat) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]
Yeah, hope the preinstalled Linux doesn't attempt to kill them just like a buggy preinstalled Windows tried to actually kill some high-positioned governmental BMW 7XXi (IIRC) owner.
It's unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux (Computerworld)
Posted Nov 4, 2005 17:25 UTC (Fri) by jrigg (guest, #30848) [Link]
Microsoft has a history of using non-MS software. Hotmail ran on Solarisfor a few years, and AFAIK they were still using some Solaris servers
at the start of 2005.
It's unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux (Computerworld)
Posted Nov 6, 2005 11:55 UTC (Sun) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link]
Hotmail was running on FreeBSD before Microsoft BOUGHT Hotmail in 1997. Then they made migration to Windows 2000 (http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/mi...) three years later. Most of this transition was reimplementing unixy programs (like cron) in Windows environment :)
It's unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux (Computerworld)
Posted Nov 5, 2005 16:07 UTC (Sat) by jcm (subscriber, #18262) [Link]
This a bit of a non-story in some ways, but in one way it is significant. We've gotten used to the fact that computers and other kit are supplied likely running some proprietary operating system (often MSFT) but Microsoft has now felt the effect of embedded devices going the other way.
It's also a non-story since Microsoft's purchasers probably won't have given thought to the software running on networking kit (if they know what software is) and will have just got the best deal around.
How many people reading this have some device which runs Windows? yet hate it and actively promote Linux instead? (you /sure/ you included the HVAC controller you've got at home? or the gadgets in your car?)
Jon.
It's unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux (Computerworld)
Posted Nov 5, 2005 23:56 UTC (Sat) by botchomorales (guest, #33648) [Link]
The real NON issue is that; who cares what the network runs on. Lets all step back and admit that a good deal of the traffic to and from this site, MS , linux.com, Linus' home is on Cisco's IOS. Microsoft does not make software for routers either, really. Smells like a media job to get viewers. Microsoft runs a good deal of non MS software (network wise). It does not matter, they consumed a service be it Linux, IOS, etc... This, IMHO, is a grasp at straws to get us to see some Flash adds.
The only thing that is significant about this is that Linux is so pervasive that it has saturated the consumer embedded device arena. We already knew that though.
Meh!