It's quite possible. Hot Mail runs on FreeBSD. The reason is that M$'s servers can't scale to the volumes required by such industrial applications. Alex Snow writes: > From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net> > > I might be wrong...but I don't believe that microsoft would ever even think > about running linux on any of their servers. If any of their machines > apears to be running linux or any other open *nix os for that matter I'd say > they were faking it. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ann Parsons" <akp at eznet.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 5:58 AM > Subject: OT: Where would you like to go today? > > > > Hi all, > > > > Janina, I heard that Microsoft, in trying to clean their Microsoft > > Update web page has moved it several times in the past couple of > > months. The final move was to a server running----- wait you can't > > guess------ Linux! I heard this from a guy I know who's a sys-admin > > in a bank. > > > > Ann P. > > > > -- > > Ann K. Parsons > > email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 > > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > > "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." > JRRT > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
