On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:14 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9886332-56.html
"Microsoft researcher Steve Ickman said while the company's internal
SharePoint site is great for some uses, there are some features that
the Wikipedia engine has that are missing in Microsoft's product. One
big thing is the engine's ability to archive. On the SharePoint site,
typically only the current status of a project is shown."
Definitely MediaWiki - there's a photo.
So expect our Windows performance to significantly improve, then ;-D
(Mind you, Zend PHP has apparently had a speedup too -
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/71347,php-optimised-for-windows-server-2008.a…
)
- d.
Are the media incapable of figuring out that the magical pixie dust that
makes Wikipedia work actually has a name?
"Mediaw--Mediawi--Oh, let's just call it the 'Wikipedia engine.'"
Maybe I'm just being gripey, but this seems like the equivalent of referring
to Windows Server 2008 as "That Microsoft Doohickey."
The way that article's written, you'd think Microsoft had devoted a crack
team to "build" an advanced piece of software rather than using open-source
software that takes five minutes to install.
This is definitely a promising development: I just wish the media would
start treating MediaWiki the way they would any other software.
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