Forgot to add this:
http://www.linuxrx.com/WS_Linux/OS_comparison.html
> 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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