[plug] [plug-ctte] Ebay is Anti-Linux!

[Daniel Foote]

> maybe a subtle bit of subliminal poison, but maybe accidental. Isn't
> ebay one of the biggest commercial success stories run on linux? You see
> penguins popping up everywhere these days -especially after the success
> of a few penguin movies lately.

EBay are not one of the "Linux success stories" - they've always been
a Windows shop.

Response Headers - http://www.ebay.com.au/

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200 OK

The "Apache-Coyote" surprised me, but some Googling shows that it is a
Java connector. In any event, the backend is Windows.

Daniel Foote.