27-09-2004, 09:22 AM
Quote:Originally posted by picanin
Are MS still using Apache? I would have thought that they would have taken them down after they aquired Hotmail and the subsequent press it got them! Was it Free-BSD or a "proper" Unix distro they ran it on?
Mind you, I reckon MS must be kicking its butt that it flogged Xenix to SCO as if it hadnt they could possibly have now started to make forays into the *nix world again!
MS tried swapping out the unix servers for MS servers running IIS after buying out hotmail in '98 or '99. Unfortunately, it collapsed into the proverbial pile of steaming ****. They then had to run to Sun Microsystems and ask them to rapidly put in some serious sun Unix servers in place running Netscape server - this appears to have been slowly migrated over to apache (still on unix, though), as it's cheaper, and its performance has improved that it is a viable option for big and busy servers in place of netscape server.
** Sun were forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement about this, but of course, when you work in Sun circles, such a boo-boo by MS didn't stay quiet for long.
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you can to reduce pain, misery, and suffering, and to promote
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answers, but if the human race is lucky, some day some one will and they
will depend on our contributions here, today to get there. I like to think
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