Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 17:47:58 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: List of big names ... Message-ID: <20021201164758.GC86826@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20021201163614.GJ7643@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> References: <20021201023429.G6214-100000@hub.org> <53747796.1038734505@cmantatzi.in.t-online.fr> <005701c29917$25f70b40$33010f0a@hboc.com> <20021201112919.GB52934@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <1038743467.61892.39.camel@localhost> <20021201163614.GJ7643@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>
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# nkinkade@dsl-only.net / 2002-12-01 08:36:14 -0800: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 11:51:08AM +0000, Stacey Roberts wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 11:29, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > One thing I haven't seen enough mention made of in this context are a > > > few interesting sites running FreeBSD. Let's see: everyone here > > > should know about Yahoo.com by now... > > > > > > Then there's apache.org: > > > > > > http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/Reports/200211/developers/apache.html > > > > > > Netcraft themselves: > > > > > > http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.netcraft.com > > > > > > Lets see: that's the biggest site on the Internet (or so I hear --- > > > certainly it's in the top ten), the people who make the world's most > > > popular HTTP server software and the people whose business it is to know > > > just about everything there is to know about web serving. > > > > Not to mention a few others like:- > > Hotmail > > ClaraNET > > Playboy > > Sony > > UUNET > > > > To name a few. I came in late on this, but thought it worth mentioning > > the above, just in case they got neglected. > > Hotmail no longer runs on FreeBSD. Microsoft transitioned to MS > platforms a while back. There has been a lot press lately about a > leaked internal report from Microsoft regarding the transition process. > Basically, the internal report speaks very hightly of *nix on the whole > and in some ways degrades Windows. Check it out at: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28226.html > The article is entitled "MS paper touts Unix in Hotmail's Win2k switch." > And there are also a link to what is apparently the actual document. > It's worth a read. That "document" is IMNSHO a hoax. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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