Too stupid for e-business

by Volker Weber

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Jaguar is not doing very well. Their sales are way below expectations. It makes you wonder because they have very nice cars. The local dealer still has models from 2001 sitting in the lot.

Today I received new materials from Jaguar Germany teasing their new offerings. There was not much hard information in there. Well, I thought it might be a good idea to check their website for more.

Unfortunately they were ill advised to develop the site with ASP. Folks who develop these kinds of applications often don't care for anything but Internet Exploder. OK, OK, I should have tried that as well, or shouldn't I?

Sorry, Jaguar, no business here.

Update: As Hajo correctly points out, this is a server-side error, not a client-side error. I never assumed that and should have made it clearer. What I did not expect however is that the site also fails with the latest and greatest from the Pacific Northwest.

Then I could not help but wake up my dormant XP installation on Lucy. Well, better make sure I have all the required security updates, since this a plain vanilla install that was never used. Now here is the question:

How many critical fixes does a Windows XP Professional installation require as of August 2003?

Find the answer here (Text is german but you will be able to read the numbers). I even found one more gem. How much is 41 MB?

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And before I forget the disclaimer: Yes, there are smart ASP programmers out there. I even happen to know some of them. As there are BMW drivers who are not idiots. :-)

Comments

Shortly after I bought my Audi A4, Jaguar (US, at least) came out the X-Type. I have occasionally regretted not waiting for this car. Used ones are already selling in the very affordable $20,000 range. But since Audi is running J2EE on their site vs. Jaguar's .NET, maybe I made the right choice ;)

Ed Brill, 2003-08-31

Not so sure, if you are a fundamentalist. BMW chose Microsoft for their in-car OS. :-)

Volker Weber, 2003-08-31

Yeah, but mine is a '96....I only hated MS a little bit back then ;) That car needs to have about two more years on it, I think. Hoping not to replace it with a minivan :(

Ed Brill, 2003-08-31

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