Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 21:38:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Sm?rgrav) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, rabtter@aye.net, n@nectar.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: biggest mail server Message-ID: <199807312138.OAA00938@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <rx4iukew0wo.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com> from "Dag-Erling Coidan Sm?rgrav" at Jul 31, 98 04:27:51 pm
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> > I thought hotmail was running FreeBSD for at least some of their > > stuff; why else would they have paid Justin over at Pluto Technologies > > to port the CAM driver to 2.2.x? > > Good question. But I remember poring over some of the press coverage > at the time when they were bought by Microsoft, looking for references > to FreeBSD, and I didn't see any mention of it - only Solaris and NT > (they'd tried to convert to the latter, but failed) That was a Sun press release being covered. Unfortunately, FreeBSD didn't make press releases at the same time, and now everyone thinks they are a pure Solaris shop, and ignores FreeBSD. 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-hackers" in the body of the message
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