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● 02.19.09

●● Doomsday Part I: Microsoft’s Razorfish Apparently Dumps Microsoft Technology Amid Rumoured Sale of This Massive Microsoft Asset

Posted in Free/Libre Software, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Servers at 1:31 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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.

=> not successful | has been a serious failure | ↺ 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.

=> 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 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.

=> ↺ this fresh report | ↺ Netcraft report

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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