From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 1 8:48:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08A7537B401 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 08:48:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E2743E88 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 08:48:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from lilith.bellavista.cz ([10.1.0.1]) by bellavista.cz (8.9.3/8.9.8) with ESMTP id RAA12673 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 17:47:59 +0100 Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by lilith.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0355D28 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:46:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A8C262FDAD7; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 17:47:58 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 17:47:58 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: List of big names ... Message-ID: <20021201164758.GC86826@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021201163614.GJ7643@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG # 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