Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 02:20:53 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Jonathan & Charmane Frazier <sttng@lonetree.com> Cc: Tom <tom@sdf.com>, "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>, "Jonathan C. Frazier" <wolfman@csocs.com>, Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Performance of FreeBSD and MS Windows. What about select() andmemorymanagement etc ? Message-ID: <20000209022053.S17536@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <38A10370.E2250D1D@lonetree.com>; from sttng@lonetree.com on Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 11:04:32PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002082055280.4244-100000@misery.sdf.com> <38A10370.E2250D1D@lonetree.com>
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* Jonathan & Charmane Frazier <sttng@lonetree.com> [000209 02:13] wrote: > Tom wrote: > > > > >> 1. Microsoft itself uses a combination of Solaris and Redhat machines to > > > >> run their own network (web pages and mail included) > > > > > I think he's talking about www.hotmail.com. Is it just me? Or do others > > > get painful headaches when they go to www.microsoft.com, the site runs like > > > crap, always slow, and you can never find anything easily, not to mention > > > those stupid automated download/install programs!! > > > > I don't think either. AFAIK, there are no RedHat systems on > > hotmail.com. It is all FreeBSD and Solaris. Microsoft has recently > > advertised for FreeBSD Admins to work at Hotmail. > > > > Tom > > Nope, I am correct. Microsoft used Redhat for a long time for > their web servers also, not just hotmail. I'm not sure what they > are running now, but you used to be able to go to linus.microsoft.com > and see the redhat/apache "successful installation" page. I > found it quite amusing to say the least. > > Solaris is being used exclusively on hotmail, NT couldn't handle > it. No, Hotmail uses FreeBSD _and_ Solaris for servers. I've heard of Linux being on some hotmail _desktops_, but never deployed as servers. Please see: http://www.microsoft.com/Jobs/bayarea/hotmail.htm do you see Linux anywhere? Also, can you please fix your mailer to wrap lines > 70 characters? thanks, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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