question about microsoft and linux

[Aaron Howell]

Microsoft did actually try to move Hotmail from Solaris to Windows NT,
and it died in a horrible way.
Apparently even they didn't have the hardware required to scale Windows NT to that sort of application.
Interestingly enough, they then successfully moved from Solaris to FreeBSD on the same Intel hardware.

Another case of the same thing,
Cisco, after signing a deal with Microsoft, told their employees that Linux was to be removed from all their servers, and that they were to run Windows instead.
They caused a company wide uproar. Their employees refused to do it, and management was left with a decision of renigging on their deal,
or having to discipline the entire technical staff.
Cisco is still running Linux.
The biggest problem Microsoft faces is that their is no public access to their source code,
meaning that it doesn't undergo the constant community improvement that opensource operating systems like FreeBSD and Linux do.
Microsoft's best strategy at this stage would probably be to take the approach of Sun and IBM,
opensource their operating systems and concentrate on making money of support and bundled packages.
Though that'll never happen.
Regards
Aaron
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 02:03:00PM -0400, Sunfire wrote:
> i didnt know if i would get in trouble for asking but a really odd thing i
> noticed er well i saw it anyways... if microsoft says that their ms windows
> servers are some if not one of the best ones out there... my question is why
> are they going against their own theory and using unix/linux for their
> servers..??
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