HAVING BATTENED DOWN the hatches to fight off Blaster worm, Microsoft Friday decided to bite the bullet and do someting radical about it. There was only one thing left to do: call for Linux!
The software Monopolist, which has recognised the Open Source Linus as the greatest threat to it monopoly, took the successful step of changing its DNS so that requests for Microsoft.com were not resolved by its own network, running its own besieged software

Rather, users' attempts to get to microsoft.com were switched to the Akamai's servers, which, as we noted before http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10413 , runs Linux

Akamai's global cacheing system speeds up Web performance by cacheing pages and delivering them to users on request. Microsoft usually uses this system, as do many companies large and small. But on Friday, under the pressure of the Blaster bug, the company changed its Domain Name System address for its own site to stop the bug attacking Windows Update pages. Instead it routed all its traffic through Akamai's Linix servers, getting a new IP address and producing the unusual chart over at net-watching site, Netcraft, here http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?....microsoft.com



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