From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 31 14:39:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05201 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 14:39:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05196 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 14:39:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21223; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 14:39:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd021197; Fri Jul 31 14:38:59 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA00938; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 14:38:53 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199807312138.OAA00938@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: biggest mail server To: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Sm?rgrav) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 21:38:53 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, rabtter@aye.net, n@nectar.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Dag-Erling Coidan Sm?rgrav" at Jul 31, 98 04:27:51 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-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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