Re: Hotmail (was Re: [Wylug-help] Miscellaneous Linux problems)

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:28:57AM +0100, Andrew Basterfield wrote:
> 
> Hotmail runs FreeBSD/Apache/qmail
> 
> Microsoft aren't stupid. They know it would be _soooo_ much hassle to run
> such a huge site under NT so they take the easy (sensible) way out....
> If they were running NT then 1 bluescreen per month per PC means a lot of
> technical support......
> 

They actually tried to convert Hotmail to NT when they took over. It didn't
work. NT wasn't able to cope with the load so they reverted to FreeBSD.

A.D.
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