Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:38:02 -0400 (EDT) From: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@netwalk.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Cc: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft-owned email service runs on FreeBSD, Apache Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904201137480.3035-100000@insomnia.local.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990420104455.11384T-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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FreeBSD runs the web servers. Solaris runs the backend. On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: :On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Nick Hibma wrote: : :> :> :> http://www.theregister.co.uk/990419-000028.html :> :> Most probably everybody knows this already, but what surpised me was the :> phrasing of one the paragraphs. :> :> :> "It's a good question, and there's an easy answer: Microsoft would :> desperately like to run Hotmail with NT/IIS but when it tried to switch :> over, it failed. And if Microsoft cannot get NT to scale, nobody can. :> Hotmail runs off FreeBSD, is on version 1.2.1 of Apache - and runs on - :> Solaris servers. Another factoid is that Microsoft is a web site :> management customer of Exodus Communications (CEO Ellen Hancock, late of :> IBM and Apple - where she was CTO until Gil Amelio, er, left)." :> :> :> :> ..runs off FreeBSD and Solaris servers. Which part is doing what? :> : :afaik WWW and email respectivly. : :-Alfred : : : : :To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message : : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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