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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 10:20:35 -0600
To: Tom <tom@sdf.com>, "Jonathan C. Frazier" <wolfman@csocs.com>
From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>
Subject: Re: Performance of FreeBSD and MS Windows. What about select()
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Ummm...
	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!!



At 08:07 AM 2/8/00 -0800, Tom wrote:
>
>On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Jonathan C. Frazier wrote:
>
>> ok, this is so far off and out of line I don't even know where to begin to
>> argue.  So instead I'll give you a few examples and a resource and you can
>> educate yourself.
>> 
>> 1. Microsoft itself uses a combination of Solaris and Redhat machines to
>> run their own network (web pages and mail included)
>
>  Uhhh... no.  www.microsoft.com is a 110 Windows servers behind several
>load balancers.  It looks like these use a DNS load balancer to front end
>the L3 load balancers.  Microsoft has staff on-duty 24x7 keeping the
>thing running.
>
>
>Tom
>
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