>From: "Linux Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Please correct me if I'm wrong, Hotmail uses FreeBSD and QMail. And why is >it that M$ is not using their own OS and Mail server - M$ Exchange? M$ >owns Hotmail but they're not using their own products.
Yup they are: Microsoft Hotmail still runs on U**x By Andrew Orlowski Posted: 12/12/2001 at 13:51 GMT http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/23348.html -- I also did a check using Netcraft: The site www.hotmail.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000 The site lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000. When you first log-on you get to see your folders and some advertisement - the link to your folders points to this address: 216.33.240.23 Netcraft says: The site 216.33.240.23 is running Apache/1.2.6 on FreeBSD -- As to why they're not using their products on Hotmail - maybe (speculating) they haven't finished their migration yet? Or maybe (speculating again) their engineers did find that using FreeBSD and other non-MS products (QMail?) was the more effective solution. Or maybe (another speculation) their engineers found out that having a heterogenous network made up of Microsoft products and Open-Source/Free software is the best solution. I don't know. :) But if they indeed are relying on other products (QMail?) when they have their own mail server MS Exchange (btw, I have no knowledge of MS Exchange - WinNT/2000 - yes, Exchange - no), then it's a big 'black-eye' to them. Regards, -- Joshua L. San Juan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.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]
