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Date:      Sat, 20 May 2000 02:55:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:      spork <spork@super-g.com>
To:        Robert Bowen <rbowen@slt.sel.sony.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New and interesting Hotmail/FreeBSD gossip
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.10005200252380.26255-100000@super-g.inch.com>
In-Reply-To: <3925AEFB.F014FF9C@slt.sel.Sony.com>

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On Fri, 19 May 2000, Robert Bowen wrote:

> 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. 

I would think 15,000 of anything to frontend a mail service should work
OK..  I heard from a guy working at one of the big Chat/Community sites
still has an old chat server app that runs on NT, and there is literally
a number of employees there who run a 24/7 "push the reset button on the
NT server" department.  Lower TCO my ass...  How many button pushers would
you need for 15,000 NT servers?  It seems like you'd lose one every few
minutes at that size...

Charles

> A purely
> political move by Microsoft to stamp out this thorn in their side. Does
> anyone know more about the story?
> 
> Robert
> 
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