On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 09:46:10PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >if MICROSOFT Windows XP/2K/3K/3.11 or whatever > >is so "ROCK SOLID", then why won't MICROSOFT Hotmail > >migrate their servers to Windows??? and why is one of my > >boxes running NT4 generating a lot of .eml files (i think this > >is the effect of the nimda virus... hehehe)?? good thing i only have > >one box running NT. > > Not trolling: Microsoft already finished migrating their Hotmail service > to servers running Windows 2000 from FreeBSD some years ago.
LOL! http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/23348.html http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5092935,00.html (This article has Bill Gates admitting in June of last year that Hotmail still uses open source software. The supposed transition was announced in the press nearly a year earlier as being completed.) http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2776342,00.html Another note to make is that Microsoft is increasing, not decreasing, their reliance on open source, particularly freebsd. After their DNS screwup last year, they apparently moved some of that away from Windows. Don't know the details, but a friend actually knows someone who works in Microsoft, and forwarded an email from the MS employee that was an answer to the question "does microsoft still use freebsd?" They did a white paper on the Hotmail move from freebsd to nt, and it's still on the site. Last I looked, they had updated it to make it a "proposed move" instead of an actual move. They can't hide it. The front-line servers are win2k, however, it's easy to see what each server is, and they still have freebsd in there. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
