[KLUG Members] No Way Out

[Jamie McCarthy]

So here's the timeline.

Friday, March 29:  Microsoft and Unisys team up to start a new ad
series called "We Have The Way Out."

The message is that unix is an expensive trap that only Windows can
deliver you from.  The ad visual is of a room where someone has
painted themselves into a corner.  There's a window next to the
corner.  Presumably the painter (who was using a color of paint
similar to Sun's purple) has escaped through the window.  Get it?


Friday, March 29, 9:15 AM:  Slashdot runs the story.

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/29/143234


Friday, March 29, 9:28 AM:  A Slashdot reader points out that the
website www.WeHaveTheWayOut.com is actually running on FreeBSD.
FreeBSD is a type of unix.

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=30252&cid=3247271


Saturday, March 30:  WeHaveTheWayOut.com still running on FreeBSD.


Sunday, March 31:  WeHaveTheWayOut.com still running on FreeBSD.


Monday, April 1:  WeHaveTheWayOut.com still running on FreeBSD.


Tuesday, April 2, morning:  WeHaveTheWayOut.com switches to
Microsoft's IIS webserver.  Slashdot runs this story:

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/02/130234


Tuesday, April 2, afternoon:  WeHaveTheWayOut.com, still running
Microsoft/IIS, goes down.

    http://news.com.com/2100-1001-874132.html


Wednesday, April 3:  WeHaveTheWayOut.com, still running
Microsoft/IIS, is still down.

    $ HEAD 'http://www.wehavethewayout.com/'
    404 Object Not Found
    Connection: close
    Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 17:37:16 GMT
    Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
    Content-Length: 111
    Content-Type: text/html
    Client-Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 17:37:15 GMT
    Client-Response-Num: 1


Here is the ad copy for the planned campaign:  "No wonder Unix makes
you feel boxed in.  It ties you to an inflexible system.  It
requires you to pay for expensive experts.  It makes you struggle
daily with a server environment that's more complex than ever."

Followups to advocacy list please :)
--
 Jamie McCarthy
 jamie@mccarthy.vg