From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 19 23:55:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from super-g.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7825037B517 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 23:55:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: by super-g.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9BA11B416; Sat, 20 May 2000 02:55:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 834B9B401; Sat, 20 May 2000 02:55:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 02:55:40 -0400 (EDT) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Robert Bowen Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New and interesting Hotmail/FreeBSD gossip In-Reply-To: <3925AEFB.F014FF9C@slt.sel.Sony.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message