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Anyone else see this notice today? The site has been down before, but not recently. It's now back online, fortunately, so I can get my ticket.

Anyone know why it went down?

Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay.

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by royrusso July 18, 2008 10:25 AM PDT: They must host on Mac servers.; Like this Reply to this comment


by gazzonyx July 18, 2008 10:26 AM PDT: Between RHEL and MS DNS patch issues, they probably got hit by one or the other either on site or upstream.; Like this Reply to this comment


by all-usernames-in-use July 18, 2008 10:51 AM PDT: Jeff in sales was disappointed with recent visitor numbers, so they decided to take the site down in order to generate some buzz on CNET blogs.; Like this Reply to this comment


by jessestay July 18, 2008 2:28 PM PDT: I saw it - it also came up last night around 1 or 2am.; Like this Reply to this comment

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