Or you could move to another qmail based Web email system. www.acmemail.net Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: Irwan Hadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 11:40 PM Subject: Fwd: Microsoft to Move Hotmail to Windows 2000 > Seems that Hotmail will be removed from the list of big companies using > qmail uh ? > > >MICROSOFT TO MOVE HOTMAIL TO WINDOWS 2000 > >by Dave Murphy, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Microsoft's free email service, Hotmail, currently boasts > >30 million subscribers. But lately it's been plagued with > >outages and security problems. In a "go for broke" move, > >Microsoft will transition its more than 3,000 email servers > >from the Unix-based FreeBSD operating system (OS) to > >Microsoft's own Windows 2000. > > > >If it works it will be a great PR coup. But I'm thinking that > >you should move your email account to Yahoo!, > >Rocketmail, or another free service for a few months. I'm > >thinking there's a good chance that Hotmail will bite the > >dust a few times before it all gets sorted out. > > > >Reviews from system administrators about the stability of > >Windows 2000 are mixed at best. It's a great system to > >learn, because it's got Microsoft's imprimatur, and that > >means there's consulting work associated with it -- some > >businesses buy Microsoft products the way they used to > >by IBM's -- purely because they don't want to think > >outside the box. > > > >Microsoft has been ribbed for running it's leading free > >email system on a competitor's OS, so I figure it's a > >testosterone move: get the system running on our own > >OS. > > > >What they're missing is that FreeBSD is a great OS. It's > >been around a long time, and there's lots of technical > >folks who know how to keep it running well. > > > >And I'd think Microsoft would learn from it's earlier > >mistake. Back in '97 it tried to migrate Hotmail to > >Windows NT. The project got so royally hung up, they put > >the FreeBSD servers back online and scrapped their own > >Windows NT systems. Now, here we are three years later-- > >well, let's just say I'm not willing to sell my front row > >tickets to this show. > > > >I hate to see a great company fall down in public, and I'm > >a big fan of Microsoft's applications -- they're pretty easy > >to use, and they keep business users humming along. But > >in general, most Unix servers are more stable than > >Windows NT/2000 servers. The Windows servers just > >have too much OS overhead. > > > >I've got my seat, popcorn in hand. Somebody dim the > >houselights. > > > >Call for Comments > >What do you think? Leave your comments on the > >message center: http://itrain.org/msg/ > > > >References > >Hotmail: http://www.hotmail.com/ > >Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/ > >Message Center: http://itrain.org/msg/ > > > >This article is posted to http://itrain.org/itinfo/2000/it000802a.html > > > >Live well, do good, > > > >--Dave Murphy
