More failing portions of Microsoft
MANY of Microsoft's business areas are not successful, but the few which are still profitable can possibly outweigh and compensate for some of the losses. In terms of financial indicators, Zune, MSN/Live and XBox have been total disasters. Windows Mobile too has been a serious failure, but Microsoft Office continues to bring home some bacon, sometimes owing to sheer corruption.
Some of Microsoft's layoffs over the past 4 months have been taking place in Razorfish [
1,
2,
3,
4], which is its fairly large subsidiary. Razorfish was acquired by Microsoft along with aQuantive, a company that was based on GNU/Linux in its stack [
1,
2,
3] and whose
manager recently quit Microsoft.
According to
this fresh report, Razorfish is moving to Rackspace, which is probably well known for its GNU/Linux-based hosting. Having glanced at the site's
Netcraft report, it seems as though Razorfish got rid of Microsoft IIS and is now embracing Free/open source software, namely Apache.
HTTP headers:
w3m -dump_head http://www.razorfish.com/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:45:54 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: blank
Connection: close
No wonder that, according to Eric Engleman, "there's been persistent speculation that Microsoft is looking to unload the agency." This was said in a respectable and reliable publication some weeks ago, as well.
Netcraft suggests that the company's server is running Apache after many years with IIS, but it still seems to be running Windows as a platform (the server is case insensitive). What happened to Microsoft IIS? Is Microsoft preparing to toss another couple of thousand of employees by selling Razorfish away?
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Comments
Roy Schestowitz
2009-02-19 22:20:14
"Microsoft's Razorfish has chosen Rackspace to host the development of new Web sites and applications rather than wait for its parent company to release its own cloud-hosting platform Windows Azure."
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2009-02-20 06:08:20
nonsense
2009-02-20 23:48:58
Roy Schestowitz
2009-02-21 00:09:04