http://opensourceparking.com/

[Christopher Browne]

On 5/8/06, John Van Ostrand <john-Da48MpWaEp0CzWx7n4ubxQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > It is a cheap way to buy a bit of (perhaps vacuous) prestige...
>
> I think it is vacuous. IIS lags behind Apache by a full 48% in actual
> real sites and 37% in total domains, parked or otherwise. I think it's
> easy for them to pay a few percentages at this stage to make the change,
> but every percentage will cost more and more.

Agreed, 100%.

> In my view, MS has changed their marketing. I think they have saturated
> print media and are looking to combat Open Source in any way that they
> can. How does one stop a grass roots competitor? Perhaps this is
> unprecedented in marketing. That would explain the sponsorship of MS
> only user groups, the free events that MS is sponsoring and the
> Microsoft Across America truck
> (http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/acrossamerica/).
>
> They spend an absurd amount of money on marketing and are probably down
> to using unorthodox methods.

And "unorthodox" can, on occasion, be the "ground-breaking orthodoxy
of the future," but, more often, it's 'heretical' because it's
downright wrong, and, in this context, represents marketing methods
that we will ultimately discover don't work.

The desperation is an interesting thing to see...
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