on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:26:07PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:41:13PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > > As far as I remember they run on *BSD-boxes mostly but are migrating > > their stuff to Win??(Enterforaprize|Dataloss)Server or whatever it´s > > called. Search on slashdot&friends along the last security-debacles > > there, that´s where I got it. > > > > cheers, > > &rw > > > > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:07:51 MST, user list writes: > > > I have just heard a rumor that the hoemail mail servers are not MS > > > exchange se rvers but, rather, linux mail servers. Is this true? > > > If so, is this well known ? we are fighting a guerrilla action > > > over this where I work. I'm on a unix ser ver that never has > > > problems while the rest of the institution runs on exchange > > > servers that are about as reliable as power in California.
> This is correct. They used to run on FreeBSD. When MS bought hotmail > they tried switching them to NT4, but it fell over horribly under the > load. Apparently Win2k is actually an improvement over NT4, as > according to recent Netcraft surveys they were actually able to switch > from BSD to 2k. Unfortunately I was not able to locate the story on > netcraft.com during a quick search while writing this message. Partial switchover, last I heard, but that's hearsay. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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