Last time the grapevine spoke to me it mentioned something about FreeBSD
being the Hotmail OS. I wouldn't put money on it, it's just what I've
heard.
Cheers,
Craige.
Peter Samuel wrote:
>
> 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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