Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:42:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hotmail converted from freeBSD Message-ID: <20010424164200.13050.qmail@web13402.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010424160312.14367.qmail@web9303.mail.yahoo.com>
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HotMail is owned by Microsoft, and the fact that HotMail was using a non-MS operating system was a source of embarrassment for them. Andrew Gould --- Mark Giglio <markgiglio@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi i heard this happened and one of their main > business drivers was that "The cgi > "one-process-per-socket" model, under FreeBSD, is > very > inefficient." > > I am interested in FreeBSD and how it compares to > other systems like win2000, esp because I would like > to build a big powerful super computer and am > investigating options for my os. > > first of all, (please humbly pardon my ignorance) > what > does the comment re sockets mean. secondly, is this > true about bsd. and thirdly, can it be improved, or > is it a property of cgi and fixed? > > the source article is at > http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/migration/hotmail/default.asp > > if it is not true, then surely there is no need to > migrate to Win2000 at all .... > > Thanks for you time. > Mark > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great > prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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