[plug] Linux in The West

[Michael Hunt]

> While we're here... http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/influence.html - why
> is egg.microsoft.com so high in the list, and why is it running Linux?

http://eggplant.rte.microsoft.com/ explains that it is a "research site
dedicated to testing and interoperability.  In addition to hosting some
research content, it is used for interoperability testing for various
protocols and applications as well as standards development.

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The information on this site is unofficial and makes no statements about
Microsoft policy or products.  This site is a research repository for
mailing list discussions, publicly available drafts, and mailing list
discussions which are hosted by Microsoft as a service to the standards
community.

Topics:

RVP - Rendezvous Protocol
GENA - Generalised Event Notification Architecture
CARP - Cache Array Routing Protocol
WPAD - Web Proxy Automatic Discovery"

So it appears to be unofficial and used just to promote discussion about the
above topics. Also is probably some Microsoft engineers toy !!!
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