On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> 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?
http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=hotmail.com&Examine=Wait..
>
> 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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