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Jim Schad (Jim_schad)
Intermediate Member
Username: Jim_schad
Post Number: 1782
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 8:47 am: | |
MS owns hotmail and it is run on SUN/Unix boxes. they tried to use NT, but it couldn't handle it. |
Ben Cannon (Artherd)
Member
Username: Artherd
Post Number: 798
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 12:46 am: | |
How's it misleading exactly? As a matter of pride, wouldn't a web server software vendor (Microsoft) demand it's outsource providers use their product to serve their own website? Especially since they already PAID for the privlidge?
Oh, wait, IIS, is pure crap, I forgot. {goggles on}
Here's the real story: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/08/17/wwwmicrosoftcom_runs_linux_up_to_a_point_.html
Best!
Ben. |
Thomas I (Wax)
Junior Member
Username: Wax
Post Number: 152
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 2:00 pm: | |
Akamai has long been Microsoft's dirty little secret go-to partner that "just happens" to run Linux.
Sept. 27, 1999, everybody's favorite start-up was "invested" in by MS:
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/1999/09/27/daily1.html
Remember the Denial of Service attacks on MS in January 2001? Akamai saved the day then, too. |
Bob Campen (Bob308gts)
Member
Username: Bob308gts
Post Number: 726
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 12:17 pm: | |
Just like Chevy using Ford to build its IRL engines |
Mike B (Srt_mike)
Member
Username: Srt_mike
Post Number: 326
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 12:09 pm: | |
A little misleading, to say the least.
It would be more accurate to say...
"Microsoft partnered with a company that maintains a much larger global network than Microsoft itself does. This allows Microsoft's partner, Akamai, to distribute the effects of a 'denial of service' attack across it's larger network, thereby significantly reducing the effect of such an attack. This partner runs Linux based servers"
The thread title would have you believe Microsoft is now running linux because their software is not capable of handling the problem, which is simply not true. |
Bob Campen (Bob308gts)
Member
Username: Bob308gts
Post Number: 725
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 11:38 am: | |
http://www.internetweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=13100775 |