MSN, bCentral, and Hotmail all run on Unix?
-
I just ran across this rather interesting article on InfoWorld.com. Seems Microsoft doesn't like to eat their own dogfood! This pisses me off, if I'm slugging away trying to build applications for their platform, and encourage my customers to buy their stuff, then they should quadruple the number of servers they use if necessary. What do you guys think? And
-
I just ran across this rather interesting article on InfoWorld.com. Seems Microsoft doesn't like to eat their own dogfood! This pisses me off, if I'm slugging away trying to build applications for their platform, and encourage my customers to buy their stuff, then they should quadruple the number of servers they use if necessary. What do you guys think? And
Andy, I don't think you should read as much into this as you seem to be. Don't forget that Microsoft acquired a number of sites and combined them into bCentral. Hotmail, and WebTV were also acquired. No question that each of these sites came along with existing software, systems, people, extensive proprietary knowledge, etc. Certainly, I'd like to see Microsoft use their own material when then have offerings in the appropriate space, but as a Microsoft shareholder I don't want them to recklessly re-write solutions that are in-place already. Further, I think Microsoft will be the first to admit that their existing solutions have scalability issues. For example Exchange was never intended to support 100's of millions of users. As Microsoft enhances each successive version of their software, these scalability issues are disappearing. Davi
-
Andy, I don't think you should read as much into this as you seem to be. Don't forget that Microsoft acquired a number of sites and combined them into bCentral. Hotmail, and WebTV were also acquired. No question that each of these sites came along with existing software, systems, people, extensive proprietary knowledge, etc. Certainly, I'd like to see Microsoft use their own material when then have offerings in the appropriate space, but as a Microsoft shareholder I don't want them to recklessly re-write solutions that are in-place already. Further, I think Microsoft will be the first to admit that their existing solutions have scalability issues. For example Exchange was never intended to support 100's of millions of users. As Microsoft enhances each successive version of their software, these scalability issues are disappearing. Davi
Microsoft tried to transfer Hotmail from FreeBSD to Windows 2000 and it didnt take. They should stick with what they are using because FreeBSD is far more secure than any microsoft server. But I also agree that they should be using their own products, because they pump themselves up and articles like this just make them look silly
-
Microsoft tried to transfer Hotmail from FreeBSD to Windows 2000 and it didnt take. They should stick with what they are using because FreeBSD is far more secure than any microsoft server. But I also agree that they should be using their own products, because they pump themselves up and articles like this just make them look silly
That really isn't true. Microsoft have been moving hotmail over to Win2000 for the past 2 years -- and finally completed the task. If you go to www.netcraft.com, you can see for yourself. And MSN is, most certainly, running Windows 2000. That article was based on an "ex-microsoft employee". As a friend of mine pointed out, he's an ex-employee of Texaco: He used to pump gas for them
-
Microsoft tried to transfer Hotmail from FreeBSD to Windows 2000 and it didnt take. They should stick with what they are using because FreeBSD is far more secure than any microsoft server. But I also agree that they should be using their own products, because they pump themselves up and articles like this just make them look silly
First of all, MS didn't "try and fail" to convert Hotmail to Win2000. They just took their time making the switch over. *YOU* try to transfer 50 million email accounts to a different OS overnight (with no down time allowed). Further, note that FreeBSD couldn't handle the load either. Hotmail was running a version which they had heavily modified for that specific purpose. Now, to see that MSN, Hotmail and bCentral are all truly being run off Windows, all you have to do is look at the sites themselves. Every link is either an .ASP or a .DLL -- clearly indicatoring that they are running IIS. (OK, most of bCentrals links go to linkexchange.com, which is still FreeBSD, but that will probably change soon