I haven't heard of Sun releasing their source code freely.But,yes,i did hear them
coming out with solaris 8 free binary.
check out this site to see that under this license,one cannot modify their source
code:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/bcl.html
and then,M$ says,it had to do *what* with the solaris code to make it meet the
requirements..?
The foll. excerpt from
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/web/news/msnw/Hotmail.asp:
"Hotmail was designed to be a massively scalable Web site. Solaris is Hotmail's
legacy production operating system, but Hotmail had to customize the filestore
service
as well as the IP stack because "off the shelf" Solaris could not scale to meet
demanding performance requirements. "
Makes me laugh at M$...nothing less...
Vineeta
Chuck Mead wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Hank Wethington blurted out:
>
> HW>Also, you can get a hotmail account (GASP!) and send an e-mail to your self
> HW>and notice that the headers say it is qmail... as qmail does not run on
> HW>Winblows, there is proof of the use of an *nix system. AFAIK hotmail uses
> HW>FreeBSD and qmail in the back end. The only challenge with this of course
> HW>would be that if M$ os migrating still, that new accounts would be set up
> HW>with M$ IIS and Exchange, there by invalidating that option. If you have an
> HW>older hotmail account, then this still might be an option to check.
>
> Microsoft says it's Solaris...
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/web/news/msnw/Hotmail.asp
>
> btw... does anybody know if Sun lets people have source code? The
> article linked here says they had to modify the source...
>
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