Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:28:25 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Robert Bowen <rbowen@slt.sel.sony.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New and interesting Hotmail/FreeBSD gossip Message-ID: <200005192128.OAA22571@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 May 2000 14:15:39 PDT." <3925AEFB.F014FF9C@slt.sel.Sony.com>
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>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. A purely >political move by Microsoft to stamp out this thorn in their side. Does >anyone know more about the story? I thought it was 'only' about 5000 machines. Anyway, yes, it's true that they are trying to convert again to Win/NT. The previous attempts failed; perhaps they'll have more success this time. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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