Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 12:18:32 +0100 From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Wow! Message-ID: <l03020901b16b5cc65f6b@[194.32.164.2]>
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> Solaris calls Hotmail shots for Microsoft
>
> Microsoft has decided to get the hots for Sun and is using Solaris to
> run its acclaimed Hotmail web-based e-mail service instead of NT.
>
> The software giant has attempted to exchange the Sun/Solaris
> infrastructure of Hotmail with NT since buying it in December 1997.
> However, the demands of supporting 10 million users reportedly proved
> too great for NT, and Solaris was reinstated.
>
> In a leaked report, sources close to Hotmail said: "... its whole mail
> server infrastructure is Solaris. NT couldn't handle it. On the web
> server, they're running MP Pentiums and Apache on FreeBSD. They're
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> moving to Solaris for threads. The engineering team did its best to run
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> NT - and failed. The issue's being escalated."
>
> Hotmail is running Apache's /1.2.1 web server which is not available for
> NT due to technical difficulties. A statement on Apache's website
> states: "The road to Windows NT has not been a pretty one. Several
> attempts have been made, both by Apache Group members and outside folks,
> but due to a lack of stability and a clear consensus on how to manage a
> true cross-platform development project, NT is not yet a standard
> platform supported by Apache."
>
> Microsoft is currently recruiting engineers for Hotmail, but NT
> specialists need not apply. Hotmail's website lists vacancies for an
> operations software engineer and a QA engineer - and the common
> requirement is for Unix experience.
>
> Judy Gibbons, director of the Microsoft Network, was unaware of the
> hardware behind Hotmail, but said: "We looked at all the on-line mail
> services and Hotmail was far and away the best. It has the most proven
> and scalable architecture."
>
> First appeared in Network News, 22-April - 1998
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