"Aravind Naidu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hotmail has a mix of FreeBSD and Suns .
it's several large Sun servers for the back end and some incredible
(like 1500) number of freeBSD (x86) boxes as front ends.
> 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.
indeed, the whole thing was hilarous.
Dave.
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