Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 26, 2006 05:11 AM
So the question is WHY??? Why would they do that?
That's what I asked repeatedly in the past few posts but, I was mocked ridiculed and labeled a troll and a Microsoft shill. If really wanting to know why makes me a troll then so be it.
There only remains one other possible explanation which you seem to dismiss out of hand
I dismiss nothing. I simply say that the completely unsupported assumption (ASSUMPTION) that GoDaddy was paid off by Microsoft is NOT the only possibility. It is you that are dismissing all other possibilities "out of hand" and ASSUMING that the only possibilty is a payoff.
Other possibilities, no matter how slim they are or how unwilling you are to consider them, include:
1. Linux wasn't up to the task.(Unlikely) 2. The new ad system that they have tied to parked domains may have needed technology or features that Linux/Apache weren't up to. Perhaps it required<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET! 3. Linux systems were requiring too much maintenance for a free service. Possibly Windows would require less maintenance or Windows maintenance would be cheaper labor wise. 4. Some as yet unannounced service/feature needed Microsoft software. 5. Microsoft offered direct payment or future discounts to encourage the switch.
As you can see, there are a lot of possibilities and in the complete (COMPLETE) absence of any hard evidence I am unwilling to jump to the same conclusions that everyone else here seems to be so convinced of. Instead I prefer to ask why and look at the situation objectively. If for instance option 3 turned out to be the case, that would make a big difference to how I do business in the future.
That theory has a LOT behind it: Microsoft's press release being the biggest. MS has a LOT of marketing dollars, and MS itself has admitted that Linux is the number one threat.
I sincerely hope that I am never on trial with you on the jury. You are convinced that there was a payoff because, they issued a press release and their marketing department has a lot of money? That's ludicrous! By your reasoning, we should suspect Pepsi Corporation because they issue press releases all the time and their marketing department has a LOT of money.
Are you stuck on stupid? Or, has blind zealotry caused you to abandon all logic?
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 26, 2006 05:11 AMThat's what I asked repeatedly in the past few posts but, I was mocked ridiculed and labeled a troll and a Microsoft shill. If really wanting to know why makes me a troll then so be it.
There only remains one other possible explanation which you seem to dismiss out of hand
I dismiss nothing. I simply say that the completely unsupported assumption (ASSUMPTION) that GoDaddy was paid off by Microsoft is NOT the only possibility. It is you that are dismissing all other possibilities "out of hand" and ASSUMING that the only possibilty is a payoff.
Other possibilities, no matter how slim they are or how unwilling you are to consider them, include:
1. Linux wasn't up to the task.(Unlikely)
2. The new ad system that they have tied to parked domains may have needed technology or features that Linux/Apache weren't up to. Perhaps it required<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET!
3. Linux systems were requiring too much maintenance for a free service. Possibly Windows would require less maintenance or Windows maintenance would be cheaper labor wise.
4. Some as yet unannounced service/feature needed Microsoft software.
5. Microsoft offered direct payment or future discounts to encourage the switch.
As you can see, there are a lot of possibilities and in the complete (COMPLETE) absence of any hard evidence I am unwilling to jump to the same conclusions that everyone else here seems to be so convinced of. Instead I prefer to ask why and look at the situation objectively. If for instance option 3 turned out to be the case, that would make a big difference to how I do business in the future.
That theory has a LOT behind it: Microsoft's press release being the biggest. MS has a LOT of marketing dollars, and MS itself has admitted that Linux is the number one threat.
I sincerely hope that I am never on trial with you on the jury. You are convinced that there was a payoff because, they issued a press release and their marketing department has a lot of money? That's ludicrous! By your reasoning, we should suspect Pepsi Corporation because they issue press releases all the time and their marketing department has a LOT of money.
Are you stuck on stupid? Or, has blind zealotry caused you to abandon all logic?
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