Before Microsoft bought it, Hotmail had a FreeBSD/Apache frontend and a
Sun/Solaris backend. Supposedly, corporate wanted MS to move Hotmail to NT,
but supposedly it failed so miserably at serving up 10 million users that
they had to nix those plans. I think Hotmail is running FreeBSD/Apache for
the most part, but 5-10% of the servers are Win2K...
As for Linux, from what I've heard (haven't tested this out myself or
anything), FreeBSD and Sun/Solaris are quite a bit more efficient for web
servers. Linux just can't take the number of hits that the other two can.
Linux is okay for development, but personally I'd rather run the same system
on my development machines as I do for my live machines...
O- ~ARK
CFO, Hmedicine.com, Inc.
I hope it feels so good to be right. There's nothing more exhilarating than
pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there?... ~Randal from "Clerks"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jeremy brand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:22 AM
> To: CC Zona
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Ethics question...
>
> > > > Why would Microsoft be using Solaris, or Linux even?
> (hint, the same
> > > > reason -- their stuff works less good).
>
> Www.microsoft.com used to be served off of Solaris (where else could
> you run a high performance installation of Oracle? ;). Hotmail was
> (is) FreeBSD. Anyone would be stupid to not be using linux in their
> interprise somewhere.
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