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发信人: netiscpu (说不如做), 信区: Unix
标 题: 为什么 M$ 不把 Hotmail 换成 NT Server
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Sat May 16 19:22:47 1998), 转信
发信人: raner (毕设好无聊呀!), 信区: Linux
标 题: 为什么M$不把Hotmail换成NT Server?
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Thu May 7 19:58:54 1998)
原来我也见过一些news说M$购买hotmail后打算更换成NT Server, 从RedHat看到一篇
文章解释了为什么MS不这么干 :-) 最后还是用的Sun Solaris, 用Apache做前端
Web Server
This article was published by VNU Business Publications Ltd. It first
appeared on April 22, 1998. Since it has already been archived, and I
have found no direct link for getting to it on VNU's site, I'm including it
on my site. If you wish to verify the authenticity of the source, you will
need to go to the VNU link above and do a search on "hotmail".
My special thanks to Paul Fischer for calling my attention to the article,
and to Peter Chen, who was kind enough to send me the much needed
URL.
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 , 22-April -1998
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