most of the servers aren't running windows 2000. If you lookup the domain hotmail.com (not www.hotmail.com) you are looking up the actual work horse servers... more than half of the servers listed are apache with freebsd..
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete Freitag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 7:41 AM Subject: RE: Networksolutions using CFM > Actually netcraft shows they are running Windows 2000 > http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=www.hotmail.c > om&submit=Examine > > They used FreeBSD when MS bought them, and for a while after that, there > were rumors that they tried switching to NT and it failed big time, but > either they have fixed those problems in Windows 2000, or they switched the > response from the FreeBSD server to say its running IIS on 2000. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Benjamin Falloon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 5:26 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Networksolutions using CFM > > > hahaha > I used netcraft to lookup hotmail and it's running apache on FreeBSD! > http://www.netcraft.com/ > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Raymond Camden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 7:19 AM > Subject: RE: Networksolutions using CFM > > > > > > > > didn't hotmail run off unix for a long time... > > > Same deal. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. > > > > > > > I rememeber reading in Wired that MS tried to force NT down their > > throats, and the coders had to fight back like heck to prevent it... or > > hold off the conversion as long as possible. Not sure what ended up > > happening though. > > > > -RC > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists

