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On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Jonathan C. Frazier wrote:

> ok, this is so far off and out of line I don't even know where to begin to
> argue.  So instead I'll give you a few examples and a resource and you can
> educate yourself.
> 
> 1. Microsoft itself uses a combination of Solaris and Redhat machines to
> run their own network (web pages and mail included)

  Uhhh... no.  www.microsoft.com is a 110 Windows servers behind several
load balancers.  It looks like these use a DNS load balancer to front end
the L3 load balancers.  Microsoft has staff on-duty 24x7 keeping the
thing running.


Tom



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