Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 15:23:46 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> Cc: David Greenman <dg@root.com>, Robert Bowen <rbowen@slt.sel.sony.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New and interesting Hotmail/FreeBSD gossip Message-ID: <20000519152346.E13502@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000519174504.A38512@mad>; from vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca on Fri, May 19, 2000 at 05:45:04PM -0400 References: <3925AEFB.F014FF9C@slt.sel.Sony.com> <200005192128.OAA22571@implode.root.com> <20000519174504.A38512@mad>
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* Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> [000519 15:18] wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 02:28:25PM -0700, David Greenman wrote: > > >Hotmail, and he told me today that they are in the process of converting > > >all of their FreeBSD machines (over 15,000) to Win2000. A purely > > > > I thought it was 'only' about 5000 machines. Anyway, yes, it's true that > > they are trying to convert again to Win/NT. The previous attempts failed; > > Maybe that's why it's 15000 machines this time... I thought MS was getting about a 40-1 ratio with thier clustering? 40 NT boxes to match 1 FreeBSD box was the last count with ftp.cdrom.com versus the Evil MS Cluster for the ftp bench? Is there really enough silicon here in the valley for Hotmail to deploy NT? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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