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Date:      Tue, 20 Apr 1999 19:45:15 -0700 ()
From:      Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>
To:        Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Microsoft-owned email service runs on FreeBSD, Apache
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.3.95.990420194331.-92213E-100000@bb-b1-11a>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990420171701.95126G-100000@elpc36.jrc.it>

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> "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 -
> 
> ..runs off FreeBSD and Solaris servers. Which part is doing what?

	I think that I saw Solaris was handling the actual e-mail part
while FreeBSD handled the rest. If somebody could hit that news article
about the guy who hacked Hotmail, I think it was mentioned there.


						Rick



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