On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Aravind Naidu wrote:
>
> Hotmail has a mix of FreeBSD and Suns .
> Running netcraft's lookup on Hotmail now will return
> www.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8
> SSLeay/0.9.0b on FreeBSD
>
>
> They tried to move to NT and failed. Microsoft put out this
> gobbledegook to inform the rest of the world.
> http://www.microsoft.com/NTServer/web/news/msnw/Hotmail.asp
>
> It is a damming indictment that after this "rumour" on May 1998, they
> still could not move on to NT.
The concept of hotmail should be platform independent. However, their
choice of software may be _part_ of the reason they have not moved from
Unix based servers.
The qmail component of hotmail will NOT run under NT. Therefore
hotmail CANNOT move that part of their operation to NT unless they
decide to use a different MTA to send mail. (qmail's design uses
concepts specific to a Unix style OS, such as inode numbers, which
don't seem to exist in NT. I'm not an NT expert so don't quote me).
The rest of their operation - inbound mail handling, filtering and
database management may be using software that is similarly confined
to a Unix style OS.
Of course there are also the issues of performance, reliability,
maintenance and availability. But I'm not going to start a religous
war today :)
Regards
Peter
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