Len, Thanks for the scoop, even if I am behind in my Hotmail news by a couple of years! :-)
William Van Hefner System Administrator TheDigest.Com/TelCompare.Com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Len Conrad > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 6:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Hotmail? > > > > >Last I heard, Hotmail was using some proprietary form of FreeBSD as their > >operating system. > > That was years ago. They tried to migrate from the original Hotmail's > FreeBSD (Ballmers innovation policy: "take the best out their and make it > ours") to NT4, failed (like it flat didn't work), and then when W2K > arrived, they spent millions finally dropping FreeBSD for W2K, > but at least > they have to eat their own cooking, but, we see this week, we have to put > up with the smell. > > >Unless things have changed recently, I don't think that > >they are running Windows. > > They've been running W2K since 2000 or 2001 for Hotmail. They made a big > deal in the press about it. But I think they kept running Solaris for > their Hotmail DNS since W2K DNS couldn't do it. I can't see them making > any big deal about the cuisine this week. > > Len > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training: Wash DC; Dallas; Atlanta > IMGate.MEIway.com: anti-spam gateway, effective on 1000's of sites, free > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
