That's a good start, but it came out in 1998. In computer terms, a lifetime
ago. Is there any more recent evidence?
Regards,
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thornton Prime [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 3:43 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: OT: Anybody else gettin' sick of Ballmer's BS?
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>
>
> On 21 Mar 2001, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
>
> > "jack wallen, jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > The site www.hotmail.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on
> Windows 2000.
> >
> > That only say what the front web server is running... the back is
> > still running on Solaris, AFAIR.
>
>
> Microsoft's woes with Hotmail and Windows NT are fairly well
> documented.
> Here is one link:
>
> http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/kirch/hotmail.html
>
> Indeed, Microsoft's HotMail, Disney, Compaq, and many other
> popular sites
> appear to serve their sites using IIS, but the servers are
> usually just
> proxies for content stored on real servers, often running
> Solaris or Linux.
>
> Part of this is because of PR -- many companies have signed service
> contracts with Microsoft that require high profile MS
> deployments -- and
> also because IIS can (when well administered) be a good
> server for stattic
> and cached content.
>
> There is a long standing rumor floating around that the majority of
> Microsoft's static site is actually served from custom
> webservers running
> on MS-DOS.
>
> thornton
>
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