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Date:      Sun, 1 Dec 2002 17:47:58 +0100
From:      Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: List of big names ...
Message-ID:  <20021201164758.GC86826@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20021201163614.GJ7643@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>
References:  <20021201023429.G6214-100000@hub.org> <53747796.1038734505@cmantatzi.in.t-online.fr> <005701c29917$25f70b40$33010f0a@hboc.com> <20021201112919.GB52934@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <1038743467.61892.39.camel@localhost> <20021201163614.GJ7643@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>

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# nkinkade@dsl-only.net / 2002-12-01 08:36:14 -0800:
> On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 11:51:08AM +0000, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 11:29, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > > One thing I haven't seen enough mention made of in this context are a
> > > few interesting sites running FreeBSD.  Let's see: everyone here
> > > should know about Yahoo.com by now...
> > > 
> > > Then there's apache.org:
> > > 
> > >     http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/Reports/200211/developers/apache.html
> > > 
> > > Netcraft themselves:
> > > 
> > >     http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.netcraft.com
> > > 
> > > Lets see: that's the biggest site on the Internet (or so I hear ---
> > > certainly it's in the top ten), the people who make the world's most
> > > popular HTTP server software and the people whose business it is to know
> > > just about everything there is to know about web serving.
> >
> > Not to mention a few others like:-
> > Hotmail
> > ClaraNET
> > Playboy
> > Sony
> > UUNET
> > 
> > To name a few. I came in late on this, but thought it worth mentioning
> > the above, just in case they got neglected.
>
> Hotmail no longer runs on FreeBSD.  Microsoft transitioned to MS
> platforms a while back.  There has been a lot press lately about a
> leaked internal report from Microsoft regarding the transition process.
> Basically, the internal report speaks very hightly of *nix on the whole
> and in some ways degrades Windows.  Check it out at:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28226.html
> The article is entitled "MS paper touts Unix in Hotmail's Win2k switch."
> And there are also a link to what is apparently the actual document.
> It's worth a read.

    That "document" is IMNSHO a hoax.

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