Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Do you have a cite for this?
> 
>   Google?
> 

Googling on the obvious "hotmail freebsd" pair brings up articles from 
2001 saying MS still uses FreeBSD, and articles from 2000 where MS 
outlines how they will upgrade it. Considering they never took the 
system down during the upgrade, it was all C++, and they had limited 
staff *and* the stuff that was hard to scale out (naming services, 
database) was already running on NT, taking 4 years to move entirely 
from FreeBSD to Win2K doesn't seem that odd to me.

I was wondering if you had any information about the 2001 upgrade that 
was more recent than, say, 2001?  Since it *is* six years later, it's 
kind of silly to continue to say "Hotmail still runs BSD" without any 
additional information?

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Remember the good old days, when we
     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?

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