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04/27/2004, 8:50am, EDT
Tuesday, April 27th
Apple New Zealand store launches, runs Microsoft app
Apple's New Zealand online store is up and running on a Microsoft IIS server rather than Apple's own Mac OS X, according to Computerworld: "The new site, which launched on Monday, sells direct to the public and is similar in look and feel to the other Apple online stores around the world, however it is run by Renaissance, the local Apple distributor. Head of Renaissance's Apple division Paul Johnston says he is aware of the incongruity....'It uses SQL Server in the back end and the pages are written in ASP. If we wanted to change that over at a later date to PHP, which Apple uses, there's no problem with that whatsoever.'"
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No M$ software should be running an Apple online store. What next - the servers are Hell Boxen?
if it's no problem to switch it then SWITCH IT!
Apple uses webobjects. It's their own freaking software... look at the URL's on their site.
It is a company that sells Apple computers.
Do a simple whois search on the domain. It's now owned by Apple.
Grrrrrr....
Another vitory for 'copy and paste' journalism.
The bit about PHP is rather odd too. WebObjects, not PHP. They could even use WebObjects on IIS if they were so inclined (though, again, WHY????)
It's dumb. I could care less if they have windows boxes there for development purposes of some natures, or for some general grunt work, but if you sell servers, USE what you sell.