hmmm thats a pretty shotty deal... i thought it sort of strange that microsoft was bragging about windows nt and xp and never used them for a server base... really shows how thoughtless they can be sometimes... hmmmmm i wonder.... anyways... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Howell" <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 7:00 PM Subject: Re: question about microsoft and linux > Microsoft did actually try to move Hotmail from Solaris to Windows NT, > and it died in a horrible way. > Apparently even they didn't have the hardware required to scale Windows NT to that sort of application. > Interestingly enough, they then successfully moved from Solaris to FreeBSD on the same Intel hardware. > > Another case of the same thing, > Cisco, after signing a deal with Microsoft, told their employees that Linux was to be removed from all their servers, and that they were to run Windows instead. > They caused a company wide uproar. Their employees refused to do it, and management was left with a decision of renigging on their deal, > or having to discipline the entire technical staff. > Cisco is still running Linux. > The biggest problem Microsoft faces is that their is no public access to their source code, > meaning that it doesn't undergo the constant community improvement that opensource operating systems like FreeBSD and Linux do. > Microsoft's best strategy at this stage would probably be to take the approach of Sun and IBM, > opensource their operating systems and concentrate on making money of support and bundled packages. > Though that'll never happen. > Regards > Aaron > On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 02:03:00PM -0400, Sunfire wrote: > > i didnt know if i would get in trouble for asking but a really odd thing i > > noticed er well i saw it anyways... if microsoft says that their ms windows > > servers are some if not one of the best ones out there... my question is why > > are they going against their own theory and using unix/linux for their > > servers..?? > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > / |\ _,,,---,,_ /| > / /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ / | > / |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' / | > / '---''(_/--' `-'\_) / | > +----------------------------------------------------------+ | > | Aaron Howell Kitten Internet | | > | aaron at kitten.net.au Internet consultancy, | | > | Phone: +61-417-625550 System administration, | | > | fax: +61-7-36010099 system design/integration. | | > | icq: 6715521 http://www.kitten.net.au | | > | | | > | | + > | | / > | | / > | | / > | |/ > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
