From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 19 14:33:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BCA137B621 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 14:33:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA22571; Fri, 19 May 2000 14:28:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005192128.OAA22571@implode.root.com> To: Robert Bowen Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New and interesting Hotmail/FreeBSD gossip In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 May 2000 14:15:39 PDT." <3925AEFB.F014FF9C@slt.sel.Sony.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:28:25 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >We got a new sysadmin where I work part time. He just came from a job at >Hotmail, and he told me today that they are in the process of converting >all of their FreeBSD machines (over 15,000) to Win2000. A purely >political move by Microsoft to stamp out this thorn in their side. Does >anyone know more about the story? I thought it was 'only' about 5000 machines. Anyway, yes, it's true that they are trying to convert again to Win/NT. The previous attempts failed; perhaps they'll have more success this time. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message