From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 26 14:27:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23454 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:27:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23389; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:27:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA03393; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:26:30 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd003313; Wed Aug 26 14:26:27 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA23229; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:26:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808262126.OAA23229@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Threads across processors To: nik@iii.co.uk Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 21:26:17 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, paul@originative.co.uk, gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980826150935.A11363@iii.co.uk> from "nik@iii.co.uk" at Aug 26, 98 03:09:35 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Hotmail are apparently dropping FreeBSD in favour of Solaris because of > > > thread support as well :-( > > > > HotMail is using Solaris for the back-end data store, yes. > > > > But they are still using FreeBSD for the WWW Server front-end. > > I'll cheerfully shout this from the rooftops. But I need a better cite > than that. I can't go around saying "Terry Lambert says that Hotmail > are still using FreeBSD for the webservers" if Sun (or others) are > saying that they're using Solaris. > > Something from either Sun, or someone from Hotmail, would do quite > nicely. Otherwise it just descends into mindless advocacy. Start by asking support@hotmail.com Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message