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Date:      Wed, 9 Feb 2000 02:20:53 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Jonathan & Charmane Frazier <sttng@lonetree.com>
Cc:        Tom <tom@sdf.com>, "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>, "Jonathan C. Frazier" <wolfman@csocs.com>, Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Performance of FreeBSD and MS Windows. What about select() andmemorymanagement etc ?
Message-ID:  <20000209022053.S17536@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <38A10370.E2250D1D@lonetree.com>; from sttng@lonetree.com on Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 11:04:32PM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002082055280.4244-100000@misery.sdf.com> <38A10370.E2250D1D@lonetree.com>

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* Jonathan & Charmane Frazier <sttng@lonetree.com> [000209 02:13] wrote:
> Tom wrote:
> 
> > > >> 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
>
> Nope, I am correct.  Microsoft used Redhat for a long time for
> their web servers also, not just hotmail.  I'm not sure what they
> are running now, but you used to be able to go to linus.microsoft.com
> and see the redhat/apache "successful installation" page.  I
> found it quite amusing to say the least.  
>
> Solaris is being used exclusively on hotmail, NT couldn't handle
> it.

No, Hotmail uses FreeBSD _and_ Solaris for servers.  I've heard of
Linux being on some hotmail _desktops_, but never deployed as servers.

Please see: http://www.microsoft.com/Jobs/bayarea/hotmail.htm
do you see Linux anywhere?

Also, can you please fix your mailer to wrap lines > 70 characters?

thanks,
-Alfred


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