Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 14:18:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Hotmail FreeBSD-->Win2k migration Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104151416450.20540-100000@daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu>
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Here is the link: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/migration/hotmail/default.asp IMHO it's worth reading. I'd like to hear what people think... ideally something from people who work/used to work at Hotmail. Some parts of their description make sense, but others don't. For one I can't believe their stories about how it's much easier to develop and debug software on Windows. Of course they probably assigned Windows developers on the project. Also here is some math: While running FreeBSD Hotmail had 3,600 servers. Now it has more than 5,000. It's been less than a year since the transition. Before transition size of the cluster was 300, after transition -- 400 (of course it's more of a design issue than a performance indicator, but still). So what everybody thinks? In particular I don't have any experience with CGI and multithreaded alternatives so I'd like to hear opinions of experienced people about that. [aslo posted to c.u.b.f.m, please cc: to me if replying, I'm not subscribed] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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