Where would you like to go today?

[Janina Sajka]

It's quite possible. Hot Mail runs on FreeBSD. The reason is that M$'s
servers can't scale to the volumes required by such industrial
applications.

Alex Snow writes:
> From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> 
> I might be wrong...but I don't believe that microsoft would ever even think
> about running linux on any of their servers.  If any of their machines
> apears to be running linux or any other open *nix os for that matter I'd say
> they were faking it.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ann Parsons" <akp at eznet.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 5:58 AM
> Subject: OT: Where would you like to go today?
> 
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Janina, I heard that Microsoft, in trying to clean their  Microsoft
> > Update web page has moved it several times in the past couple of
> > months.  The final move was to a server running----- wait you can't
> > guess------ Linux!  I heard this from a guy I know who's a sys-admin
> > in a bank.
> >
> > Ann P.
> >
> > --
> > Ann K. Parsons
> > email:  akp at eznet.net ICQ Number:  33006854
> > WEB SITE:  http://home.eznet.net/~akp
> > "All that is gold does not glitter.  Not all those who wander are lost."
> JRRT
> >
> >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175