That's great to hear (!), do you possibly know of any reference to that on
the web? I'd like to share that with some co-workers, but I'm afraid
without proof it could seem sorta like an 'urban legend'. I tried searching
both cnet and zdnet with no luck, it would be nice to find a page of 'little
known facts' about Linux - anyone know of any?
Mike
> On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, someone wrote:
>
> >> > MS makes applications for Mac OS and others, but nothing for Linux.
> >It seems > > especially strange considering that Microsoft choose Linux
> >to run it's > > Hotmail webservers, instead of NT!
>
> I missed something of this thread, it seems. MS did try to make the
> transition from Linux to Windows NT after they took over Hotmail, and they
> put in a LOT of effort and money. The problem that they faced, however,
> was that there was no combination of NT-computer/memory/disk and windoze
> mailserver that could handle the amount of accounts (millions) and e-mails
> (gazillions per day). They tried setting this up for 4 months, shadowing
> the load of the Sparc's that Hotmail used to NT machines in each
> conceivable configuration. It did not work.
>
> So they did not choose Linux, they were just doomed to continue using it,
> in a way, since their own product was not able to make it work.
>
> The only thing that I know of that MS did for Unix (not even specifically
> Linux), is build some things for Apache so that can support "BackPage"
> extensions. (Who'd want that with PHP anyway.)
>
> I know about the limitations of win NT compared to Unix. At work we use a
> bit of a database that continuously calculates processes (1.6 million
> measuring points that are updated every 2 minutes). All attempts to make
> this go on Win NT failed 10 out of 10 times. MS-Access cannot take it,
> Oracle for Windows is way too slow.
>
> A nice basic Oracle database on an HP-9000, running HP-UX, has no problem
> with it...
>
> Paul
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