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Date:      Wed, 09 Feb 2000 10:41:30 -0500
From:      "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@ds.net>
To:        Tom <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        Jonathan & Charmane Frazier <sttng@lonetree.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:  <38A18AAA.19D0BBD7@ds.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002082241390.4244-100000@misery.sdf.com>

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> 
> > 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 you are wrong.  Just because there is a Linux install somewhere
> within *.microsoft.com means very little.  www.microsoft.com is NT, and
> always has been NT.  That is a known fact.
> 
>   hotmail is not exclusively Solaris.  They use a FreeBSD and Solaris mix.
> This is well known too, and Microsoft has stated this publicly several
> times.

For the non-believers in the crowd check out this link: 
http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.hotmail.com


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