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Fafifoernik (fafi@korhoen.ml.org) wrote:
: net gehooord op de radio:

ah, media, the ultimate in markething hyped news. Overlaatst noch gelezen 
dat de helf van de webservers NT IIS draait. Da's raar, maar blijkbaar
rekenen ze enkel de *verkochte* software... Pech voor Apache, want die kwam
in de lijst niet voor.
 
: bijna 9 computers (PC's?) op 10 ter wereld draait MS-Windows. Dat is net de
: verhouding zoals die hier wordt toegepast!

Blijkbaar rekenen veel mensen onder computer enkel Personal Computers.
Nochtans draait er op onze wasmachine (nog) geen Windows CE.

Bah, een werkstation is ook al geen PC zeker? Dan vrees ik dat er hier geen
PC's staan: enkel Unix werkstations.

Ah, voor de mensen die zich afvroegen wat MS van plan was met Hotmail:


-----Forwarded message from La Senorita Peligrosa <gita@wired.com>-----


Solaris calls Hotmail shots for Microsoft Microsoft has decided to get the
hots for Sun and is using Solaris to run its acclaimed Hotmail web-based
e-mail service instead of NT.  The software giant has attempted to
exchange the Sun/Solaris infrastructure of Hotmail with NT since buying it
in December 1997.  However, the demands of supporting 10 million users
reportedly proved too great for NT, and Solaris was reinstated.  In a
leaked report, sources close to Hotmail said:  "... its whole mail server
infrastructure is Solaris. NT couldn't handle it. On the web server,
they're running MP Pentiums and Apache on FreeBSD. They're moving to
Solaris for threads. The engineering team did its best to run NT - and
failed. The issue's being escalated."  Hotmail is running Apache's /1.2.1
web server which is not available for NT due to technical difficulties. A
statement on Apache's website states: "The road to Windows NT has not been
a pretty one.  Several attempts have been made, both by Apache Group
members and outside folks, but due to a lack of stability and a clear
consensus on how to manage a true cross-platform development project, NT
is not yet a standard platform supported by Apache."  Microsoft is
currently recruiting engineers for Hotmail, but NT specialists need not
apply.  Hotmail's website lists vacancies for an operations software
engineer and a QA engineer - and the common requirement is for Unix
experience.  Judy Gibbons, director of the Microsoft Network, was unaware
of the hardware behind Hotmail, but said:  "We looked at all the on-line
mail services and Hotmail was far and away the best. It has the most
proven and scalable architecture." 

First appeared in Network News, 22-April - 1998



-----End of forwarded message-----

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