From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 15 23:17:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from repulse.cnchost.com (repulse.concentric.net [207.155.248.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 489BA37B422 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 23:17:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Received: from bitblocks.com (adsl-209-204-185-216.sonic.net [209.204.185.216]) by repulse.cnchost.com id CAA22321; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 02:17:24 -0400 (EDT) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.10] Message-ID: <200104160617.CAA22321@repulse.cnchost.com> To: Wes Peters Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interesting article. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Apr 2001 22:37:44 MDT." <3ADA7717.BFFF01AB@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 23:17:23 -0700 From: Bakul Shah Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Though, a lack of good Unicode support on FreeBSD seems like > > a legitimate enough reason for the move. > > Yes, it would, if it were true, see /usr/ports/devel/libunicode. One port does not make good support. For that FreeBDS has to have native unicode support. > In order to determine if they really made any savings or not -- I > notice that they've increased the number of servers at Hotmail from > 3,400 to 5,000 - you'd also have to determine how much they could have > improved the performance by merely writing their code as an Apache > module. If as they claim they doubled the performance, they saved a few mil in not having to use 10,000 servers. My point was they didn't save *as much money as* they could've, had they used various performance increasing tricks we are well aware of. > So, was that 18 month development project really necessary from a > technical standpoint, or only justified as a marketing cost? Nobody > outside Microsoft management will ever really know. Suspect the most likely cause of conversion can be summed up in the phrase `eating your own dogfood'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message