Bill Gates Demo Uses Linux

[burns]

"NEW YORK?Bill Gates and IBM Software chief Steve Mills joined together
here today to give an update on their companies' combined work in
advancing Web services. 

In an intimate setting at the St. Regis Hotel, Gates, Microsoft Corp.'s
chief software architect and chairman, and Mills, IBM Software Group's
senior vice president and general manager, demonstrated for the first
time reliable messaging and secure, authenticated transactions across a
federated, heterogeneous environment. 

They also announced that they plan to take the specifications used to
pull off the demonstration, and which the companies have been developing
for three years, to open standards bodies soon, and that they would not
seek royalties for the specs." 

<yeah, right>

<snip>

"(It should be noted that the backend of the demo was a Linux server
running WebSphere and Windows Server 2003, and a Sharp Zaurus PDA
running Linux and the Opera browser was used as one of the clients.)"

<snip>

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burns