From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 14 20:40:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.mindspring.com (smtp1.mindspring.com [207.69.200.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 292F615158 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 20:40:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (user-2ivear5.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.43.101]) by smtp1.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA07371; Fri, 14 May 1999 23:40:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <373CEC52.413A6AD4@confusion.net> Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 23:38:58 -0400 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rick hamell Cc: Jim Mock , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UNIX References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nope, their site runs WinNT, you'd think they'd learn from their HotMail experience, but they didn't. That explains why it's so slow. THe Hotmail story goes that they tried to use WinNT when they bought it but the system just wouldnt hold up. FreeBSD did. The end. If they'd started Hotmail from scratch on WinNT it probably wouldn't exist right now. rick hamell wrote: > > > m$ runs their web servers for HotMail on FreeBSD, and LinkExchange > > (which is owned by m$) is run entirely on FreeBSD. > > And their site runs what, 40 Solaris servers? :) > > Rick > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message