Friday, December 15, 2000

ZDNet: Sm@rt Partner - Microsoft Supports Windows Media Services On Linux Remember when Microsoft said that the only way any of its products would
ever show up on Linux would be over its dead body? Bring out your dead!

Microsoft isn't actually moving the Windows Media Services (WMS) server
to Linux. That's still a Windows-only play. Instead, they're doing the next
best thing: cutting a deal with a company to allow Windows Media Format
(WMF) streams to be served up from Linux servers.

Microsoft has licensed StarBak Communications, a small Ohio company to
deliver Microsoft's media streams on StarBak's Torrent streaming media
network appliance lines and streaming media cache products using its
reverse engineered WMF server.

The kicker? StarBak will be delivering Microsoft proprietary media services
from embedded Linux systems. Yes, that's right; Microsoft is officially
blessing Windows server functionality delivered from a Linux platform.
http://www.zdnet.com/sp/stories/news/0,4538,2664804,00.htm

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