Microsoft and TheServerSide.com announced the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for Microsoft to acquire TSS at a price of approximately $1 billion in cash, the largest such acquisition since rival IBM purchased Rational last year. As of today, a new staff or editors, developers, and admins have taken over at TSS.
The move is expected to cause J2EE developers to switch to .NET en masse, and is part of Microsoft's overall strategy to dominate the enterprise development space. "The key to controlling peoples opinions is to control the media, much like the relationship between CNN and the U.S. government", says Greg Purty, Microsoft Marketing Commando. "We only get so much mileage out of paid forum participants like Rolf Tollerud. Slashdot - you're next!"
The site will slowly be ported to .NET, and from Linux to Windows Server 2003. "We're going to use the new 'generate web portal' button in Visual studio that takes in a .NET revenue projection sheet and outputs a complete .NET developer portal, down to the articles and all", said TSS' new development team.
Excitement is the word that sums up the feelings of TheServerSide development team. "I'm going to take a vacation, like the Orion guys", said Floyd Marinescu, Director of the site. "Afterwards, I think I'll buy the country of Canada". With similar sentiments, TSS Chief Architect Dion Almaer has finally settled in London. After looking around for "the right place" in Islington, this buyout has enabled him to buy Buckingham Palace (poor Queenie). TSS Linux Guru, Neven C, has purchased an island, and named it "LinuxLand". To enter the land you need to prove that your laptop is only running Linux.
About TheServerSide.com
TheServerSide .NET community is the independent Micro$oft development community, with over 250,000 converted J2EE professionals. For more information, visit Microsoft.com.
****EDITORS NOTE******
Monday April 7th
For those of you who are still unsure. This thread was indeed an April Fool. Microsoft, has NOT bought TheServerSide.
Floyd
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April Fools: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com (110 messages)
- Posted by: Floyd Marinescu
- Posted on: April 01 2003 04:15 EST
Threaded Messages (110)
- Chuckle... by John Malia on April 01 2003 04:20 EST
- MS/THESERVERSIDE by sidharth singh on April 01 2003 04:24 EST
- MS/THESERVERSIDE by Cristiano Burg on April 01 2003 03:07 EST
- oh noooooooooooooo..... by Tushar P. on April 01 2003 07:05 EST
- MS/THESERVERSIDE by sidharth singh on April 01 2003 04:24 EST
- April 1 by Vano Beridze on April 01 2003 04:25 EST
- Good Joke by Prasoon Choudhary on April 01 2003 04:25 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by S Yau on April 01 2003 04:27 EST
- Where are the other good JAVA discussion forums? by Edmond Hung on April 01 2003 04:31 EST
- Where are the other good JAVA discussion forums? by Web Master on April 01 2003 05:02 EST
- Victor by Victor Jan on April 01 2003 07:11 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Saliya Jinadasa on April 01 2003 04:35 EST
- the real joke by Michael Mattox on April 01 2003 05:01 EST
- on linux? by Marc Viaene on April 01 2003 05:50 EST
- What is real, what is not by Rickard Oberg on April 01 2003 05:02 EST
- Again with the conspiracy theories by Jim Livingston on April 01 2003 12:29 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Rod Johnson on April 01 2003 05:03 EST
- Dammit by Laurent Rieu on April 01 2003 05:05 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Sergei Batiuk on April 01 2003 05:15 EST
- self-fulfilling prophecy by Marc Recht on April 01 2003 05:34 EST
- Getting DSL is hard at the palace by Dion Almaer on April 01 2003 05:48 EST
- Getting DSL is hard at the palace by christian parker on April 01 2003 20:41 EST
- bad news by Francisco Belinchon on April 01 2003 05:49 EST
- Great news by Mirko Novakovic on April 01 2003 06:10 EST
- What is the joke in this message ? by Christophe CAENEVET on April 01 2003 06:14 EST
- Floyd a genius! by Mohan Thomas on April 01 2003 06:26 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Parag Gadhia on April 01 2003 06:34 EST
- Great Work done by Floyd by AHSAN JAMIL QUADRI on April 01 2003 06:36 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Henrique Steckelberg on April 01 2003 06:44 EST
- What?!? Oh! duh April 1st. hehehehe... good one by jr archer on April 01 2003 06:48 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Chad Williams on April 01 2003 06:58 EST
- April Fool by Arun CR on April 01 2003 07:12 EST
- so this is how it has to end by Rolf Tollerud on April 01 2003 08:10 EST
- Oh...the horror by Rich Herman on April 01 2003 08:16 EST
- Bad joke by Andy Ng on April 01 2003 08:21 EST
- What a sad date!!! by Lih Wang on April 01 2003 08:47 EST
- Temporary setback by Nate Borg on April 01 2003 08:47 EST
- Seriously by Race Condition on April 01 2003 08:50 EST
- Seriously by Floyd Marinescu on April 01 2003 09:36 EST
- jokes can kill ! by YOYO XXX on April 01 2003 10:06 EST
- Seriously by Floyd Marinescu on April 01 2003 09:36 EST
- APRIL FIRST JOKE by jin xie on April 01 2003 08:58 EST
- creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy joke ;)) by vinay salehithal on April 01 2003 09:07 EST
- Rename the website by Web Master on April 01 2003 09:13 EST
- Very Good by Kevin Lewis on April 01 2003 09:29 EST
- Rename the website by Henrique Steckelberg on April 01 2003 11:53 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Jose Luis Rivera Vidal on April 01 2003 09:14 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Rich Covel on April 01 2003 09:20 EST
- subtle by Craig Pfeifer on April 01 2003 09:17 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Todd Murray on April 01 2003 09:20 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Floyd Marinescu on April 01 2003 09:32 EST
- Good One .... by prashant jani on April 01 2003 09:28 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by YOYO XXX on April 01 2003 09:49 EST
- Black humor by Didier Guillon on April 01 2003 10:00 EST
- Generate Web Portal Button by Mark Porter on April 01 2003 10:09 EST
- GEE !!! - Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Dorel Vaida on April 01 2003 10:11 EST
- GEE !!! - Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Matthew Cox on April 01 2003 11:34 EST
- Even worse by Juan Losada on April 01 2003 10:28 EST
- Even worse by YOYO XXX on April 01 2003 10:37 EST
- same here by Irene Hernandez on April 01 2003 18:19 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Raj Siv on April 01 2003 10:30 EST
- RE: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com... "A good price"? by Michael Kovacs on April 01 2003 11:46 EST
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RE: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com... "A good price"? by Floyd Marinescu on April 01 2003 11:49 EST
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to persons of perspicacity all things are possible by Rolf Tollerud on April 01 2003 08:05 EST
- he never misses anything by Rolf Tollerud on April 01 2003 10:25 EST
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to persons of perspicacity all things are possible by Lance Fogtman on April 01 2003 10:31 EST
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to persons of perspicacity all things are possible by Rolf Tollerud on April 01 2003 10:41 EST
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Nothing wrong with that by Colon Keethya on April 02 2003 01:45 EST
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Always curious by Rolf Tollerud on April 02 2003 03:23 EST
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Always curious by Dino Octavian on April 02 2003 04:08 EST
- Always curious by Floyd Marinescu on April 02 2003 11:52 EST
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Always curious by Dino Octavian on April 02 2003 04:08 EST
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Always curious by Rolf Tollerud on April 02 2003 03:23 EST
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to persons of perspicacity all things are possible by Lance Fogtman on April 02 2003 11:48 EST
- to persons of perspicacity all things are possible by Rolf Tollerud on April 02 2003 12:31 EST
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Nothing wrong with that by Colon Keethya on April 02 2003 01:45 EST
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to persons of perspicacity all things are possible by Rolf Tollerud on April 01 2003 10:41 EST
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to persons of perspicacity all things are possible by Rolf Tollerud on April 01 2003 08:05 EST
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RE: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com... "A good price"? by Lasse Koskela on April 01 2003 12:58 EST
- BTW: Have you seen JavaRanch's April's Fool? by Lasse Koskela on April 01 2003 01:00 EST
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RE: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com... "A good price"? by Raj Siv on April 01 2003 03:59 EST
- RE: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com... "A good price"? by Michael Kovacs on April 01 2003 05:36 EST
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RE: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com... "A good price"? by Floyd Marinescu on April 01 2003 11:49 EST
- RE: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com... "A good price"? by Michael Kovacs on April 01 2003 11:46 EST
- Tiny Compaq bought Digital Equipment Corporation by David Ressler on April 01 2003 10:35 EST
- Brilliant by Web Master on April 01 2003 10:54 EST
- April Fools on you guys. Dot Not Aint ! by Brad Galyean on April 01 2003 11:57 EST
- Is this a APRIL FOOL joke ? by Harimohan Bawa on April 01 2003 12:30 EST
- Bye Bye Love, Bye Bye Happiness, Hello Loneliness ... by Jose Maria Arranz on April 01 2003 13:20 EST
- Where to go next by derek fong on April 01 2003 13:38 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by j f on April 01 2003 13:52 EST
- www.theclientside.com by Roland Barcia on April 01 2003 14:21 EST
- www.theclientside.com by Floyd Marinescu on April 01 2003 14:58 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by bekeffy zoltan on April 01 2003 15:34 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Thomas Kuruvilla on April 01 2003 18:14 EST
- Can we buy Pets from the PetStore? by Ramu Kannan on April 01 2003 19:09 EST
- Thx the God, and thx MS by Nguyen Anh Tuan on April 01 2003 20:24 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Not a Nerd on April 01 2003 20:41 EST
- Ha Ha by Vinay Menon on April 01 2003 21:50 EST
- Ahead of our time? by bill salamanca on April 02 2003 00:15 EST
- OK OK by Web Master on April 02 2003 00:22 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by John Willems on April 02 2003 05:20 EST
- Good article on All Fools Day !! by Krishna Kanth V on April 02 2003 05:24 EST
- Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Erik Bengtson on April 02 2003 08:37 EST
- Not good :) by Saikumar nukala on April 02 2003 09:37 EST
- Microsoft completes acquisition of SUN Microsystems by Erik Bengtson on April 02 2003 09:55 EST
- Microsoft completes acquisition of SUN Microsystems by Haytham A on April 02 2003 11:30 EST
- Microsoft completes acquisition of SUN Microsystems by Erik Bengtson on April 02 2003 09:55 EST
- not funny at all!!!! by DENG JIANG on April 02 2003 21:17 EST
- April Fools: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Ilamparithi B on April 02 2003 22:58 EST
- That was really funny!!! by Suresh R on April 02 2003 23:44 EST
- April Fools: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by NetDust OY Jin on April 03 2003 00:15 EST
- April Fools: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Jitender Bhatia on April 03 2003 04:03 EST
- April Fools: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com by Ashok Samrat on April 03 2003 04:18 EST
- Not a right move from Microsoft either by Sanjib Dutta on April 04 2003 23:27 EST
- You guys scared me! by Adam Quan on April 07 2003 12:52 EDT
- U got me by Abdel Hamid El Refaiy on April 13 2003 08:01 EDT
- My Mistake by Abdel Hamid El Refaiy on April 13 2003 08:10 EDT
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Chuckle...[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: John Malia
- Posted on: April 01 2003 04:20 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
looks at the date, smiles. -
MS/THESERVERSIDE[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: sidharth singh
- Posted on: April 01 2003 04:24 EST
- in response to John Malia
Think of date and ........ you know what to do .... sidharth -
MS/THESERVERSIDE[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Cristiano Burg
- Posted on: April 01 2003 15:07 EST
- in response to sidharth singh
It's real.
I'm trying reply a message and saw one error page. I'm really sure that's it a new TheSeverSide version (Powered by .NET) -
oh noooooooooooooo.....[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Tushar P.
- Posted on: April 01 2003 07:05 EST
- in response to John Malia
Nice joke....
if this is true then the biggest mistake by Floyd Marinescu.
Sorry...for that -
April 1[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Vano Beridze
- Posted on: April 01 2003 04:25 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
HAHAHA
good joke :) -
Good Joke[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Prasoon Choudhary
- Posted on: April 01 2003 04:25 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Good Joke -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: S Yau
- Posted on: April 01 2003 04:27 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
nice one guys :P -
Where are the other good JAVA discussion forums?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Edmond Hung
- Posted on: April 01 2003 04:31 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Hi all
I used to visit TSS almost everyday but now I am planing to go other similar websites. Could anyone please give me some recommendations on this?
There are many great people posting lots of brillant idea and comments in TSS and hope I still hear their voice in other discussion forums.
Thank you !!
Regards
Edmond -
Where are the other good JAVA discussion forums?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Web Master
- Posted on: April 01 2003 05:02 EST
- in response to Edmond Hung
don't feed the fish ;) -
Victor[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Victor Jan
- Posted on: April 01 2003 07:11 EST
- in response to Edmond Hung
I think I should find another website similar to this. -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Saliya Jinadasa
- Posted on: April 01 2003 04:35 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
good one. Who knows, this might become a reality in the future !! -
the real joke[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Michael Mattox
- Posted on: April 01 2003 05:01 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Funny because TheServerSide.com has been running on .NET for 6 months now. -
on linux?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Marc Viaene
- Posted on: April 01 2003 05:50 EST
- in response to Michael Mattox
.Net on linux running Oracle?
See http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.theserverside.com -
What is real, what is not[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Rickard Oberg
- Posted on: April 01 2003 05:02 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Wouldn't it be hilarious if it later turned out to be for real, and it was announced on April 1 just to make everyone go "yeah, right". Now, *that* would be funny. :-) -
Again with the conspiracy theories[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Jim Livingston
- Posted on: April 01 2003 12:29 EST
- in response to Rickard Oberg
Rickard Oberg, CCT (Certified Conspiracy Theorist) writes:
>
> Wouldn't it be hilarious if it
> later turned out to be for real,
> and it was announced on April 1
> just to make everyone go "yeah, right".
>
Wouldn't it be hilarious if Rickard one day posted something that wasn't whiny or involved a conspiracy theory? -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Rod Johnson
- Posted on: April 01 2003 05:03 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Thanks Floyd, this is brilliant :-)
Rod -
Dammit[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Laurent Rieu
- Posted on: April 01 2003 05:05 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Uhh, I was about to throw my EJB Design Patterns book to the flames and run to the library to get my cart full of .NET book !
Laurent -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Sergei Batiuk
- Posted on: April 01 2003 05:15 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
This is NOT funny!! -
self-fulfilling prophecy[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Marc Recht
- Posted on: April 01 2003 05:34 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
I just hope you didn't inpspire Microsoft with that... -
Getting DSL is hard at the palace[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Dion Almaer
- Posted on: April 01 2003 05:48 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
It took me a LONG time to get DSL installed at my new house :)
Finally, I am back online :) I wonder if I get to have tea with Vice-President Blair once a week like the Queen did :) -
Getting DSL is hard at the palace[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: christian parker
- Posted on: April 01 2003 20:41 EST
- in response to Dion Almaer
It took me a LONG time to get DSL installed at my new house :)
>
> Finally, I am back online :) I wonder if I get to have tea with Vice-President Blair once a week like the Queen did :)
How far is Buckingham Palace from the c/o? Is that like 640 Kbps down? What is your latency like?
;)
CP -
bad news[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Francisco Belinchon
- Posted on: April 01 2003 05:49 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
A war, a good place becames a dark place. Could it be worst?. Yes I know, it could.
I have to change my homepage, I don´t like dictators. :-((( -
Great news[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Mirko Novakovic
- Posted on: April 01 2003 06:10 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
This are really great news. With .NET and the new IBM Universal Business Adapter we are able to solve all our software problems...
- Mirko - -
What is the joke in this message ?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Christophe CAENEVET
- Posted on: April 01 2003 06:14 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Is the amount the only joke in this message ? -
Floyd a genius![ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Mohan Thomas
- Posted on: April 01 2003 06:26 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Good Work..Floyd..!! Cheers...we hope you are not forseeing this ! -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Parag Gadhia
- Posted on: April 01 2003 06:34 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
This is a very good idea to make fool on April 1...
April Fool all u readers of serverside.com -
Great Work done by Floyd[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: AHSAN JAMIL QUADRI
- Posted on: April 01 2003 06:36 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
I think this is the 1st thing which he has done right on time. And he'll be proud , even his parents & offsprings will be proud of this decission.
But as a Java programmer , he has sold our feelings so cheeply :)
It should be in trillions !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Henrique Steckelberg
- Posted on: April 01 2003 06:44 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
OMG... I almost had a heart attack... that's the killing joke! -
What?!? Oh! duh April 1st. hehehehe... good one[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: jr archer
- Posted on: April 01 2003 06:48 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
I like the revenue projection input param.... everyone needs one of those. -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Chad Williams
- Posted on: April 01 2003 06:58 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
The Rolf bit is the funniest...Rolf's gonna be angry! -
April Fool[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Arun CR
- Posted on: April 01 2003 07:12 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
I believe itz just to Fool for the day... Good Idea.... -
so this is how it has to end[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Rolf Tollerud
- Posted on: April 01 2003 08:10 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Floyd!
It is good to hear that you are not superstitious, (According to some you should not joke to close to reallity..)
Thanks for honorable mention!
Regards
Rolf Tollerud -
Oh...the horror[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Rich Herman
- Posted on: April 01 2003 08:16 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
It's agood thing the calendar was righ in fornt of me. Nice joke (nervous laughter). -
Bad joke[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Andy Ng
- Posted on: April 01 2003 08:21 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Really make me shock! -
What a sad date!!![ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Lih Wang
- Posted on: April 01 2003 08:47 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Even worse, the whole world has turned up side down since last night. -
Temporary setback[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Nate Borg
- Posted on: April 01 2003 08:47 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
I'm sure The Middleware Company will swoop in and re-acquire us very shortly. ;-)
Floyd, do you have any extra Canadian provinces you don't need? -
Seriously[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Race Condition
- Posted on: April 01 2003 08:50 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Many funny! Seriously Floyd, if M$ wanted to buy TSS what would your selling price be? -
Seriously[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Floyd Marinescu
- Posted on: April 01 2003 09:36 EST
- in response to Race Condition
Many funny! Seriously Floyd, if M$ wanted to buy TSS what would your selling price be?
Well, firstly I don't own TSS, although I am its Director/General Manager. So I couldn't make decisions like that but I'd imagine the site should be worth a fair amount. Perhaps in the millions.
Floyd -
jokes can kill ![ Go to top ]
- Posted by: YOYO XXX
- Posted on: April 01 2003 10:06 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Floyd,
You shouldn't make crazy killing jokes like this anymore. Someone
might get a heartattack, indeed.
Please delete it after 1st april.
BTW I have read that someone really died from a heartattack when some of early Micro$oft programms displayed "Tree of evil gives bitter fruits, now trashing programm disk". The programm had dicided that it's not licensed.
I dont know if it's "urban legend" or not.
But nowdays... if you upgrade your's PC hard drive than Windows 2k becomes unbootable and you can say byebye to your data on HTFS partition, if you are not
a geek that can read it from hdd. And noone has died from this, as far as I know.
Maris -
APRIL FIRST JOKE[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: jin xie
- Posted on: April 01 2003 08:58 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
It is posted on April 1. Definitely IT IS APRIL FIRST JOKE. Dot net feel sad. -
creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy joke ;))[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: vinay salehithal
- Posted on: April 01 2003 09:07 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
whoa!!! scared the winds out of me!!!
goes with the April 1 mood though... :) -
Rename the website[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Web Master
- Posted on: April 01 2003 09:13 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Now that that you're moving to .net :), perhaps you could rename the site as
www.theserversdie.com
Aaron. -
Very Good[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Kevin Lewis
- Posted on: April 01 2003 09:29 EST
- in response to Web Master
Aaron, that was a little too funny for my quiet office environment. Very nice.
--Kevin -
Rename the website[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Henrique Steckelberg
- Posted on: April 01 2003 11:53 EST
- in response to Web Master
Now that that you're moving to .net :), perhaps you could rename the site as
>
> www.theserversdie.com
>
> Aaron.
Or maybe www.theserverslide.com -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Jose Luis Rivera Vidal
- Posted on: April 01 2003 09:14 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Do not underestimate the power of the Dark Side. -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Rich Covel
- Posted on: April 01 2003 09:20 EST
- in response to Jose Luis Rivera Vidal
Thanks Floyd.. Several heart attacks were had here. -
subtle[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Craig Pfeifer
- Posted on: April 01 2003 09:17 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
as a $3 bill. -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Todd Murray
- Posted on: April 01 2003 09:20 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
How about a little profit sharing with us posters that have made TSS so entertaining? I'll even sign a document praising MS ;-) -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Floyd Marinescu
- Posted on: April 01 2003 09:32 EST
- in response to Todd Murray
If TSS really got bought for such a stupid amount of money (or anything close to it), I'd surely give some of it back to every one in the top 100 posters on the site. So... start participating more in anticipation of this event. :)
Floyd -
Good One ....[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: prashant jani
- Posted on: April 01 2003 09:28 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Hi folks,
nice gag ....
did ya hear sun n micro tieing up for Web services ...
read over the sun site ;)
jani -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: YOYO XXX
- Posted on: April 01 2003 09:49 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
hehehehe :-)
good joke, you got me, when I opened TSS today - I thought it's real although unbelievable for a few minutes.
Yeah, And I thought I'll burn all my J2EE books ASAP, too. :-)
real black humor.
Maris -
Black humor[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Didier Guillon
- Posted on: April 01 2003 10:00 EST
- in response to YOYO XXX
I had the same feeling as most of the read : fear and how to run away. I must admit the joke was good and at first glance it worked !
Keep up TSS running for a long time please ! Your work is great ! -
1st April[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: YOYO XXX
- Posted on: April 01 2003 10:31 EST
- in response to Didier Guillon
Keep up TSS running for a long time please ! Your work is great !
yeah, many ppl are browsing TSS every day. It's not kind to them to make jokes like that. -
Generate Web Portal Button[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Mark Porter
- Posted on: April 01 2003 10:09 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
I've spent three hours this morning with Visual Studio looking for this button only to realize that I dont have the latest service pack. Doh! -
GEE !!! - Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Dorel Vaida
- Posted on: April 01 2003 10:11 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
C'mon Floyd you ALLMOST KILLED ME !!! I will sue you for this !!! I couldn't believe my eyes, than I had a second thought about the date. Stop doing this man
... and I thought I was the tough one, preparing to bullshit my wife that I was cheating her. -
GEE !!! - Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Matthew Cox
- Posted on: April 01 2003 11:34 EST
- in response to Dorel Vaida
<Dorel Vaida>... and I thought I was the tough one, preparing to bullshit my wife that I was cheating her.</Dorel Vaida>
Stick to the old salt in the coffee gag. -
Even worse[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Juan Losada
- Posted on: April 01 2003 10:28 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Dude, in Spain we don't have April fool but December 28th, so you should realize what I believed after read it.... right now I'm five years older and my hair looks white. -
Even worse[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: YOYO XXX
- Posted on: April 01 2003 10:37 EST
- in response to Juan Losada
Dude, in Spain we don't have April fool but December 28th,
just before new year ? you can make crazy jokes about new year's presents.
"dear friend, I just bought a new Ferrari for you, I'll give it to you tomorow".
We have a "programmer's day" at university. We dont joke about M$ then, but talk about quantum computers and thing like that.
Maris -
same here[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Irene Hernandez
- Posted on: April 01 2003 18:19 EST
- in response to Juan Losada
Same here, caught unawares. It even made sense since I know that MS is hiring J2EE people for its .NET Evangelist teams.. -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Raj Siv
- Posted on: April 01 2003 10:30 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Floyd,
You really fooled me with this one, though $1 billion is very good price that make me consider it seriously.
Oh boy! it's like the ultimate nightmare come true or even apt description would be like apocalypse...
Don't even dream about it. -
RE: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com... "A good price"?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Michael Kovacs
- Posted on: April 01 2003 11:46 EST
- in response to Raj Siv
Hehe... if you think that $1Billion is a good price to purchase
TSS perhaps I could interest you in some swampland in Florida ;-)
That was the very first thing that tipped me off to it not being a
true story. I don't have the appropriate knowledge to know for sure but I would
guess that TSS couldn't even sell for $30million, and certainly no
way more than $100million, though I can't think of what they've got that's
worth anywhere near that much.
There's still time Floyd, bump down that price, I'm sure there's still many folks
that haven't read the story yet :-) -
RE: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com... "A good price"?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Floyd Marinescu
- Posted on: April 01 2003 11:49 EST
- in response to Michael Kovacs
Well, we didn't REALLY want to give people heart attacks. :) -
to persons of perspicacity all things are possible[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Rolf Tollerud
- Posted on: April 01 2003 20:05 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
I do not understand, why cannot Floyd open another site dedicated to .NET? (TheServerSide.net - do you own that too?), that would be nice! An inssurance against the future. You never know whats going to happen, look at what happened to Javalobby!
(About Javalobby)
"I've noticed less active participation in the forum for some long time now.."
Gone are the days when average response per thread was about 35. This has droped to about 8 now. I want answers. If you have one please don't hesitate to throw it out here.
Those are my thoughts. I would love to improve Javalobby and find some way to bring back the general excitement that Java had behind it. Frankly, I've noticed a general decline in Java forums around the web. Does no-one have something really new and unique that they are doing with Java that can give us a spark?
El Zorro siempre tiene dos caminos
Regards
Rolf Tollerud -
he never misses anything[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Rolf Tollerud
- Posted on: April 01 2003 22:25 EST
- in response to Rolf Tollerud
Actually, the domain name "theserverside.net" is already registered for Floyd Marinescu! -
to persons of perspicacity all things are possible[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Lance Fogtman
- Posted on: April 01 2003 22:31 EST
- in response to Rolf Tollerud
Rolf,
You know you did a whois lookup on theserverside.net and Floyd does own it. Do you KNOW ANYTHING ELSE about the possibilities of a dedicated .Net site??? I am in favor of going to one place theserverside.xxx to get my daily dosage of .net and java news...
Lance -
to persons of perspicacity all things are possible[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Rolf Tollerud
- Posted on: April 01 2003 22:41 EST
- in response to Lance Fogtman
Well you probably right. Never change a winning concept! Perhaps I should not say this, but thanks to TSS I save the money for cable TV, if you graps my meaning.
Regards
Rolf Tollerud -
Nothing wrong with that[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Colon Keethya
- Posted on: April 02 2003 01:45 EST
- in response to Rolf Tollerud
Rolf, we definitely grasp that meaning... but don't try and deny that you are missing any episodes of "American Idol". -
Always curious[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Rolf Tollerud
- Posted on: April 02 2003 03:23 EST
- in response to Colon Keethya
Colon,
Sorry we dont have that channel in the northern europe where I live. But why do we not ask Floyd why he registered the name?
I am constantly amazed by the number of small details which present themselves, to be observed or ignored, as one chooses.
Regards
Rolf Tollerud -
Always curious[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Dino Octavian
- Posted on: April 02 2003 04:08 EST
- in response to Rolf Tollerud
Rolf,
with theserverside.net registered there is a smaller chance to end up with some unwanted competition. Plus at some point it may be that theserverside.net = $$$$. I'd say: "Good thinking Floyd"
doc -
Always curious[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Floyd Marinescu
- Posted on: April 02 2003 11:52 EST
- in response to Dino Octavian
Thats the basic idea Octavian. I registered theclientside.com and theserverside.net at first to prevent spoof sites of TSS, but you never know what other uses they may have one day.
Floyd -
to persons of perspicacity all things are possible[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Lance Fogtman
- Posted on: April 02 2003 11:48 EST
- in response to Rolf Tollerud
Rolf - Have you participated in any studies/interviews (subject is attributes of successful .net projects) recently? -
to persons of perspicacity all things are possible[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Rolf Tollerud
- Posted on: April 02 2003 12:31 EST
- in response to Lance Fogtman
In a word - no.
Regards
Rolf Tollerud -
RE: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com... "A good price"?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Lasse Koskela
- Posted on: April 01 2003 12:58 EST
- in response to Michael Kovacs
"I don't have the appropriate knowledge to know for sure but I would
guess that TSS couldn't even sell for $30million, and certainly no
way more than $100million, though I can't think of what they've got that's
worth anywhere near that much."
That's a good question, really -- how can you estimate the worth of a community site? If MS really had bought TSS, folks would just set their bookmarks to the next TSS and continue business-as-usual... We'd still have Rolf, TQ, Cameron and other regular posters, just in a different website. How much would MS be willing to pay for causing that "much" trouble? -
BTW: Have you seen JavaRanch's April's Fool?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Lasse Koskela
- Posted on: April 01 2003 13:00 EST
- in response to Lasse Koskela
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RE: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com... "A good price"?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Raj Siv
- Posted on: April 01 2003 15:59 EST
- in response to Michael Kovacs
Please note the pun behind me saying $1 billion is a very good price. It was intended to be a joke. -
RE: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com... "A good price"?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Michael Kovacs
- Posted on: April 01 2003 17:36 EST
- in response to Raj Siv
Please note the pun behind me saying $1 billion is a very good price. It was intended to be a joke.
Pun duely noted :-) Now, about that swampland.... -
Tiny Compaq bought Digital Equipment Corporation[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: David Ressler
- Posted on: April 01 2003 10:35 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
If you guys went to Microsoft, they would start to put out respectable software. -
Brilliant[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Web Master
- Posted on: April 01 2003 10:54 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Had me going for at least 20 seconds - I even let out a 'Noooooooooooo!' in surprise...!! Nice one!
Keep up the good work!
Kevin -
April Fools on you guys. Dot Not Aint ![ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Brad Galyean
- Posted on: April 01 2003 11:57 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
I can't believe you all are falling for this mess. I guess we know who the "real" participants on TSS will be.
:) LOL LOL -
Is this a APRIL FOOL joke ?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Harimohan Bawa
- Posted on: April 01 2003 12:30 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
It is very Hard to digest this news. Yuck!!!.
If M$ has really done this (pay $1 billion) I am sure they have gone crazy.
This won't effect any Java developers.
If not this site someone else will come something similar.
Another thing, .NET has still to prove itself.
H -
Bye Bye Love, Bye Bye Happiness, Hello Loneliness ...[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Jose Maria Arranz
- Posted on: April 01 2003 13:20 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Any other Java centric news and discussion site, Boys?
Bye TSS -
Where to go next[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: derek fong
- Posted on: April 01 2003 13:38 EST
- in response to Jose Maria Arranz
www.ibm.com/developer -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: j f
- Posted on: April 01 2003 13:52 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
I think we all should play a joke on TSS now and actually switch our interest/skills to .Net. We can hang out on TSS and argue with Rolf for being too positive about j2ee
j f -
www.theclientside.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Roland Barcia
- Posted on: April 01 2003 14:21 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
I think with this aquisition, the site will be called the clientside.
How far from the truth is this???
Happy fools day -
www.theclientside.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Floyd Marinescu
- Posted on: April 01 2003 14:58 EST
- in response to Roland Barcia
I own that domain name. Perhaps one day it will become useful. :) -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: bekeffy zoltan
- Posted on: April 01 2003 15:34 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
good joke
but for some seconds I had realy a bad shiver reading it -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Thomas Kuruvilla
- Posted on: April 01 2003 18:14 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Good Joke !!!
Floyd, your dream comes true. MS seriouly thinking about acquisition after noticing the response to your post. Check MS website.
- Binu
Accenture -
Can we buy Pets from the PetStore?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Ramu Kannan
- Posted on: April 01 2003 19:09 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
I heard you will be selling real pets on TSS as a result of this acquisition. Middleware will use the code that they wrote for Microsoft since the code has to be used somewhere. -
Thx the God, and thx MS[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Nguyen Anh Tuan
- Posted on: April 01 2003 20:24 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
but .......... KILL Floyd :-D -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Not a Nerd
- Posted on: April 01 2003 20:41 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Damn! I was shocked and really frustrated (looping with Petstore) with $Soft finding ways to kill the Java community :x
Anyway realized the date @ the end of story, Good work !
Now i can grab my coffee -
Ha Ha[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Vinay Menon
- Posted on: April 01 2003 21:50 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
What a joke !
"Microsoft running TSS on .NET".
You think .NET can handle something like TSS :-) -
Ahead of our time?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: bill salamanca
- Posted on: April 02 2003 00:15 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
It being well into the second of April when I read saw this my April Fool shields were down and a long wow ! escaped my lips before the shields snapped shut and I started breathing again. A couple of years ago it would have been a believable price too, now not more that $50M at the tops.
Reminds me that we in Australia are ahead of US & Europe in more ways than just time but New Zealand (and the Cook Islands) can claim to have the drop on us in that area.
regards from downunder -
OK OK[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Web Master
- Posted on: April 02 2003 00:22 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
You do realise you are responsible for a number of heart attacks today. -
OOo[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Kalyan K
- Posted on: April 03 2003 02:14 EST
- in response to Web Master
You are right !Count me also
Kalyan -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: John Willems
- Posted on: April 02 2003 05:20 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
It's 4/2 now.
The day of horror is passed.
Furtunallu microsoft was written as micro$oft: good hint -
Good article on All Fools Day !![ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Krishna Kanth V
- Posted on: April 02 2003 05:24 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
A very good article on All Fools day - April 1st. Lets see the authenticity of information as days go by :-) -
Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Erik Bengtson
- Posted on: April 02 2003 08:37 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
my heart is near 130 beats /seconds -
Not good :)[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Saikumar nukala
- Posted on: April 02 2003 09:37 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
This is a sad news. But lets see if this might be a good turn from MS towards Open Source..We have to wait till MS reveals all its .net SDK as (100%) open source not as hidden partial win32 API's :)
We the software engineers will definitely get positive result as both SUN and MS will improve their quality in the rivalry, leaving us much better platform...Lets hope the day will come when both will be 100% inter-operable with no additional efforts.. -
Microsoft completes acquisition of SUN Microsystems[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Erik Bengtson
- Posted on: April 02 2003 09:55 EST
- in response to Saikumar nukala
Microsoft completes acquisition of SUN Microsystems http://www.cnn.com:443@212.190.116.226/news.php?aAgHpwWd -
Microsoft completes acquisition of SUN Microsystems[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Haytham A
- Posted on: April 02 2003 11:30 EST
- in response to Erik Bengtson
There is no clue in the news item that indicates this is a joke!!!!!!!!! -
not funny at all!!!![ Go to top ]
- Posted by: DENG JIANG
- Posted on: April 02 2003 21:17 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
It is not funny at all!!!!make me sick and have not desire to get lunch -
April Fools: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Ilamparithi B
- Posted on: April 02 2003 22:58 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Hi,
If the message about takeover of TheServerSide.com company by Microsoft is true, then we guys over here at Chennai, India are really shocked about the happenings. As of date, your site had been the prime site of reference for Java/J2EE Professionals. You guys got into fame with Matering EJB2 PDF written by Ed Roman. Thanks a lot for the wonderful support and guidance given by you guys.
If the thread is associated with April Fool's Day, its really pitiable to see such a silly act from a reputed company like you. How could this happen in your forum. If this had been a news floating around on some other site, then its ok. I would request the Forum Administrator to be more Professional.
Regards,
Ilamparithi Balakrishnan. -
That was really funny!!![ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Suresh R
- Posted on: April 02 2003 23:44 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
For a while I thought why would microsoft acquire serverside.com which has j2ee information? what would they benefit from this? then I thought this might be one
of their strategy to kill java....... Finally happy to know that this is a joke. -
April Fools: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: NetDust OY Jin
- Posted on: April 03 2003 00:15 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
OMG!!!!
i'll be dead!
i can not believe this is a joke on this site !
:( -
April Fools: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Jitender Bhatia
- Posted on: April 03 2003 04:03 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
Here is additional news that Floyd forgot to post :
1. 4000 Micro$oft Engineers are flying to California, to take a crash course in Java. The training is being conducted at Sun Headquarters.
2. Billy the Gilly, is junking the current Windows OS, and it will re-written in Java.
3. Clinton was last seen with a Java enabled cigar, that has a inbuild J2EE Server. It orders Tobacco automatically. -
April Fools: Microsoft Acquires TheServerSide.com[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Ashok Samrat
- Posted on: April 03 2003 04:18 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
April 1 'st -
Not a right move from Microsoft either[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Sanjib Dutta
- Posted on: April 04 2003 23:27 EST
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
I dont like to throw much words to Floid because no word can touch that treacherous and foolish guy who believe a j2ee comunity is worth of only 1 billion $.I am a J2ee developer as well as a dotnet developer.I believe that this decission from MS has once again exposed the fact that since it has yet not been able to come up with robust enterprise component architecture built into dotnet rather than exposing COM+ with much overhead, much of which they are surreptitiously phasing out,MS is trying to avail the experience of ejb developers to build up their component technology from the scratch. -
You guys scared me![ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Adam Quan
- Posted on: April 07 2003 12:52 EDT
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
You guys scared me! Thank GOD! -
U got me[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Abdel Hamid El Refaiy
- Posted on: April 13 2003 08:01 EDT
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
U really got me there Floyd ... started saying bad words and stopped eating my breakfast and started thinking of other sites and communities to replace urs, ... sadly found none :-(
... u should have added :
- Micro$oft re-assigns Rold as Senior Universal Global Extra-Terrrestrial Marketing Director.
- Micro$oft-backed troops arrest Scott McNealy and Floyd (thus returning the money to their headquarters).
Peace be with u
Abdelhamid -
My Mistake[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Abdel Hamid El Refaiy
- Posted on: April 13 2003 08:10 EDT
- in response to Floyd Marinescu
sorry i meant Rolf