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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000>Gates: Do as I say, not as I do</FONT><FONT color=#666666
size=2><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">MS relies on Linux to keep its own sites
running</FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT>
<P><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Poet T.S. Eliot said April is the
cruellest month, but Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates may beg to differ. August
brought Windows users three major virus attacks and MS' own Microsoft.com site
was disabled twice as a result of distributed denial of service attacks.
</FONT><BR><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>MS customers flocked to MS'
site to download patches to protect against the Sobig virus and the Blaster
worm. But many were dismayed to learn that MS' own sites were temporarily put
out of commission by the very security flaws the patches were designed to
protect against. </FONT><BR><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>In order to
get Microsoft.com up and running again and reduce its continued exposure to
addition virus, worm and denial of service attacks, MS contracted with Akamai.
Akamai guarantees Internet content delivery through its own secure worldwide
network using - you guessed it - Linux! </FONT><BR><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=2>The open source software, which MS had called "a
cancer," an "intellectual property destroyer" and "not ready for the enterprise"
proved its mission-critical mettle. No comment from a red-faced
Redmond.</FONT></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>