Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 02:42:41 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Trish Lynch" <trish@bsdunix.net>, "Chris Coleman" <chrisc@vmunix.com> Cc: "Trish Lynch" <trish@bsdunix.net>, "Haikal Saadh" <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>, <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hotmail _still_ runs FreeBSD! Message-ID: <011001c18440$9ec99930$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20011213201844.F698-100000@femme.sapphite.org>
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As far as I know, Microsoft itself hasn't used any UNIX systems for production in ages. There are UNIX systems in test labs, but that's about it. Prior to the move to Microsoft Exchange Server, the internal e-mail system of the company used MTAs that ran on Xenix, however. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trish Lynch" <trish@bsdunix.net> To: "Chris Coleman" <chrisc@vmunix.com> Cc: "Trish Lynch" <trish@bsdunix.net>; "Haikal Saadh" <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>; <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 02:19 Subject: Re: Hotmail _still_ runs FreeBSD! > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Chris Coleman wrote: > > > > > > > How do you know Solaris isn;t the UNIX they were talking about? > > > > Um, the article specifically mentions FreeBSD at least twice. :-) I do > > believe they had Solaris, so I am not disputing that. > > > > I meant Microsoft, I know plenty of people at Hotmail, and last I heard, > Solaris was on the back end, and Win2k on the front. > > > > -- > Trish Lynch trish@bsdunix.net > FreeBSD The Power to Serve > Ecartis Core Team trish@listmistress.org > http://www.freebsd.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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