Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:24:33 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Oliveiro <joe@advancewebhosting.com> To: Per Tore Larsen <per.tore.larsen@fernonorden.com> Cc: "'Danny'" <dannyho@bigpond.net.au>, Dem Chuasieng <dem@goodview.com.cn>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SV: it seems www.hotmail.com is not using FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101180822430.537-100000@joe.pythonvideo.com> In-Reply-To: <25879E6A7E74D411B9370050043B7F3E09F888@fernonorden.com>
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M$'s original goal was to take hotmail and have it completely ran off M$. However, Exchange could not handle the loads therefor they replaced the front end to give it the appearance of running of 2k, which in fact it is (for the webserver) but the backend structure has remained the same, powered by fbsd. Ofcourse, this is just mho. Microsoft: "Where would you like to go to today" Linux: "Where would you like to go tomorrow" FreeBSD: "Hey,when are you guys going to catch up" On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Per Tore Larsen wrote: > Just for info. > > When microsoft took over Hotmail.com they made a big deal that > within short time hotmail.com only run Win2k. This may be true > for front end services. However, reading between the lines and > looking at press releases, they are still running FreeBSD for > backend services (the real work is done on FreeBSD) because > diffrent short commings on Win2000 and IIS. > > PeTe > > > -----Opprinnelig melding----- > > Fra: Danny [mailto:dannyho@bigpond.net.au] > > Sendt: 18. januar 2001 04:17 > > Til: Dem Chuasieng; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Emne: Re: it seems www.hotmail.com is not using FreeBSD > > > > > > Hotmail.com has something known as a server farm. They use > > multiple servers. > > Some may include windows and some FreeBSD. > > > > > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Dem Chuasieng wrote: > > > >%_It seems www.Hotmail.com is using Windows 2000 and not > > FreeBSD anymore...When was the last time you updated or > > checked the sites listed that use FreeBSD? > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > Dem Chuasieng > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Content-Description: > > ---------------------------------------- > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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