Hm. I don’t know what the “MySQL”:http://www.mysql.com guys are up to, but apparently if you go to their site sending the user-agent Opera'', they will redirect to. To microsoft.com. More specifically to/we/write/great/software.html”. Some web-guy having fun on Opera’s expense? What do they mean by “we write great software”? They do? We do? What? :-)
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Yes, supposedly we have written their CEO, and we’ve been on their IRC-channel on freenode, where the general indication was that they knew nothing of it. We’re still holding for more info from MySQL.
Just for the record, a little dump of an http-request: User-Agent: Opera/8.50 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Host: www.mysql.com Accept: text/html, application/xml;q=0.9, application/xhtml+xml, image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, /;q=0.1 Accept-Language: en Accept-Charset: windows-1252, utf-8, utf-16, iso-8859-1;q=0.6, *;q=0.1 Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, x-gzip, identity, *;q=0 Cache-Control: no-cache Connection: Keep-Alive, TE HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:12:16 GMT Server: Apache Location: http://www.microsoft.com/we/write/great/software.html Content-Length: 300 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 302 Found Found
The document has moved here.
Apache Server at www.mysql.com Port 80
Now if I worked for MySQL and I would pull a joke like that on the company website, I would get my ass fired within the next working day. Let’s hope MySQL has some sense and takes appropriate action, since this kind of publicity can bite a company in the ass. Like it should.
Did anybody contact the admin of Mysql.com?