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SCO Twist: Does the Nevada District Court Run Linux?


Publication:	LinuxWorld	Date:	Mar 04 2004

"One order of truth, hold the irony." Sometimes a story is so good, you almost don't want to know if it's true or not. Such is the case with the widely reported discovery by UK firm Netcraft that the Nevada District Court, which will hear one of the two SCO lawsuits, itself runs Linux on their Web servers.

Netcraft based this report on the analysis that they perform on Web page requests to sites. Unfortunately, as their own FAQ indicates, these results are not 100% foolproof, due to firewalls and proxy servers that may lie between the actualy Web server and the outside world.

Unfortunately, in this case, that is exactly what has happened. Phone calls to the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which provides hosting for the Nevada District Court, reveal that the site is in fact running on Lotus Notes technology on top of Windows servers. Technical staff in the administrative office of the court strongly refuted any claim that Linux is being used at all on the site.