Why Microsoft Hotmail.com runs on U**x?

[Vizzy <vizzy () freemail hu>]

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> Microsoft Hotmail still runs on U**x
> By Andrew Orlowski
> Posted: 12/12/2001 at 13:51 GMT
>
> Microsoft  admits  it  still  hasn't  upgraded its Hotmail system to
> Windows,  almost four years after embarking on the task, and fifteen
> months  after  the first load balancing machines began to be shifted
> to Windows 2000 from FreeBSD.
>
> The snippet emerged in the latest pissing contest between Oracle and
> Microsoft,  the  details  of  which  are too boring to go into here,
> because you've heard them so many times before.
>
> But  a Microsoft spokesperson told Reuters yesterday that Hotmail is
> the  only Microsoft system that runs on U**x, and that the migration
> is  still  in  progress.  A check with Netcraft shows that Hotmail's
> front  edge  servers  do  indeed  run Windows 2000, so Microsoft can
> faithfully  claim  that  the  "web  site  runs  Windows",  as it did
> yesterday.  But  the  infrastructure is still stored on BSD kit. How
> much  we're  not  sure, but when we receive hard numbers, we'll tell
> you.


...
Year 2004.

There are *still* only Hotmail's front edge servers runing
Windows 2K. The rest of infrastructure, like:
bay8-u6.bay8.hotmail.com
bay8-u7.bay8.hotmail.com
bay8-u8.bay8.hotmail.com
....
etc..
all on unix.

So why the Giant believes Windows is not suitable for some tasks but
trys to convince world in the same time to use Win for all server
needs (under such heavy marketing)??

-- 
have phun,
 Vizzy    

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