[CS-FSLUG] NI: Microsoft looks to extinguish LAMP

[Don Parris]

On 6/15/05, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> "Microsoft engineers have toiled for years to make the company's software
> industrial strength and worthy of large corporations' dollars.
> 
>  Now the software giant faces a different challenge: fending off open-source
> alternatives that are good enough for most jobs.
> 
>  At Microsoft's TechEd customer conference last week, executives spelled out
> the company's lineup to combat these cut-rate incursions onto its turf.
> In particular, the company is focused on improving its alternatives to the
> so-called LAMP stack, the combination of the Linux operating system, Apache
> Web server, MySQL database, and scripting languages PHP, Perl or Python.
>  Microsoft's anti-LAMP strategy is to heap features into its low-end products
> and to build a comprehensive set of tools--spanning development to
> management--in the hopes of making Windows Server more attractive."
> 

I love the "heap features" phrase.  Say, does this mean they really
are calling their bugs & security vulnerabilties features?  After all,
isn't there a "heap"-something or other vulnerability?

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