From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 20 8:32:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F709150A4 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:32:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA01673; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:45:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:45:30 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Nick Hibma Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft-owned email service runs on FreeBSD, Apache In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Nick Hibma wrote: > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/990419-000028.html > > Most probably everybody knows this already, but what surpised me was the > phrasing of one the paragraphs. > > > "It's a good question, and there's an easy answer: Microsoft would > desperately like to run Hotmail with NT/IIS but when it tried to switch > over, it failed. And if Microsoft cannot get NT to scale, nobody can. > Hotmail runs off FreeBSD, is on version 1.2.1 of Apache - and runs on - > Solaris servers. Another factoid is that Microsoft is a web site > management customer of Exodus Communications (CEO Ellen Hancock, late of > IBM and Apple - where she was CTO until Gil Amelio, er, left)." > > > > ..runs off FreeBSD and Solaris servers. Which part is doing what? > afaik WWW and email respectivly. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message