Re: Hotmail servers, Was RE: [PHP] LiteSpeed Web Server 1.1

Why don´t we stop talking about Microsoft and products that they don´t own? Reason: Can you imagine that Microsoft would show interest about PHP? Can you imagine Ms Visual PHP? we´ll get a non-working scripting non-free language.... while Microsoft think ASP it´s better than PHP and is not a threat wewill be able to sleep during nights and safe from this kind of nightmares ..... cheers!. ================ DPC

From: "Andrew Whyte" <a.whyte@cqu.edu.au> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Subject: [PHP] Hotmail servers, Was RE: [PHP] LiteSpeed Web Server 1.1 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 07:58:08 +1000 I hate to continue this thread at all, but... -----Original Message----- From: Jason Wong [mailto:php-general@gremlins.biz] Sent: Thursday, 9 October 2003 6:04 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net On Thursday 09 October 2003 00:44, Robert Cummings wrote:

*heheh* That's like the smarty template site not using

smarty. Or back

in the day when hotmail was owned by Microsoft but still

running off

linux.

I believe it's still the case. The frontend runs on MS servers but the backend which handles the mail is still using BSD after several desperate attempts to convert over to Windows failed. iirc, It deffinitly is still the case, MS bought out Hotmail which always ran on a bunch of FreeBSD servers, at one point tried switching it over to IIS/Win2k, and it couldn't keep up, so went back to FreeBSD. There is also good rumour about that MS have fully ported .NET to FreeBSD so that they can use the .NET framework for coding, and FreeBSD to continue running Hotmail. Of course, this could all be just rumour... but it's interesting to ponder. :-) -Andrew -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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