Netcraft's records for as far back as May 2000 show Hotmail.com, Microsoft.com, bCentral.com and MSN.com all running multiple Windows 2000 servers.
I've heard that before as well but I've always just assumed it's just Geek propaganda. K On Saturday, May 18, 2002, at 04:58 PM, William Anderson wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Phil Deane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 1:08 PM > Subject: [scottish] Scottish Power Round 2 > > >> [snip] >> >> Even Microsoft use Linux on their HTTP servers because there = >> own operating system is not as good as has major security flaws. > > Can we have proof of MS using Linux for any of their web servers? Or > did i > miss something? And I know about the "We have the way out" MS/Unisys > site - > that was on Apache over FreeBSD. > > Hotmail DID use FreeBSD for a long time until MS managed to migrate it, > and > there was still some some FBSD in use as part of Hotmail's back-end > architecture until recently ... but Linux as an MS web server? > > -- > _ __/| ___ ___ __ _________ "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned > \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ for Sega." -- Brodie, 'Mallrats' > =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ @ well.com :: William Anderson > U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! http://neuro.wasters.com/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
