RE: [PHP] RE: Ethics question...

Forgot to add this: http://www.linuxrx.com/WS_Linux/OS_comparison.html > Before Microsoft bought it, Hotmail had a FreeBSD/Apache frontend and a > Sun/Solaris backend. Supposedly, corporate wanted MS to move > Hotmail to NT, > but supposedly it failed so miserably at serving up 10 million users that > they had to nix those plans. I think Hotmail is running FreeBSD/Apache for > the most part, but 5-10% of the servers are Win2K... > As for Linux, from what I've heard (haven't tested this out > myself or > anything), FreeBSD and Sun/Solaris are quite a bit more efficient for web > servers. Linux just can't take the number of hits that the other two can. > Linux is okay for development, but personally I'd rather run the > same system > on my development machines as I do for my live machines... > > O- ~ARK > CFO, Hmedicine.com, Inc. > I hope it feels so good to be right. There's nothing more > exhilarating than > pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there?... ~Randal > from "Clerks" > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: jeremy brand [mailto:jeremy@nirvani.net] > > Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:22 AM > > To: CC Zona > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Ethics question... > > > > > > > Why would Microsoft be using Solaris, or Linux even? > > (hint, the same > > > > > reason -- their stuff works less good). > > > > Www.microsoft.com used to be served off of Solaris (where else could > > you run a high performance installation of Oracle? ;). Hotmail was > > (is) FreeBSD. Anyone would be stupid to not be using linux in their > > interprise somewhere. > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >