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balson wanted us to know:
> Yes, it is owned by Microsoft, but, I have read more than one article,
>that Microsofts hotmail is run on BSD based servers. This was true as of last
>year, and I believe that microsoft is trying to migrate hotmail to Windows
>NT/2000 based servers, I'm not sure that has happened yet. As far as I know,
>until I read otherwise, hotmail is based on BSD Unix. I doubt that BSD would
>crap out as a mail server.
For years, hotmail was run completely on BSD. MS bought them with plans
to convert all mailservers to Exchange. They tried several times and
failed several times. At this point (hearsay), it seems they have
successfully migrated everything over to Exchange, but at the cost of 5
Exchange boxes for every BSD box they replaced. Their peripheral
machines are still running BSD (nameservers for example).
I do not work for them, nor do I know anybody who does, this is all
third-hand, so if I'm wrong, it's only because I'm ignorant.
Blue skies... Todd
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Q: Should I quote at the end of the message?
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