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> >> 1. Microsoft itself uses a combination of Solaris and Redhat machines to
> >> run their own network (web pages and mail included)

> 	I think he's talking about www.hotmail.com. Is it just me? Or do others
> get painful headaches when they go to www.microsoft.com, the site runs like
> crap, always slow, and you can never find anything easily, not to mention
> those stupid automated download/install programs!!

  I don't think either.  AFAIK, there are no RedHat systems on
hotmail.com.  It is all FreeBSD and Solaris.  Microsoft has recently
advertised for FreeBSD Admins to work at Hotmail.

Tom




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