From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 20 8:39:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pokey.local.net (tcs7-13.netwalk.net [206.175.76.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E9814E04 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:39:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmutter@netwalk.com) Received: from insomnia.local.net (insomnia.local.net [192.168.2.3]) by pokey.local.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA13246; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:35:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jmutter@insomnia.local.net) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:38:02 -0400 (EDT) From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@netwalk.com To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Nick Hibma , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft-owned email service runs on FreeBSD, Apache In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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