Microsoft Is Using Linux To Protect Its Own Web Site
 

An interesting news story:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...=/cmp/13100775

I'd say this article has a bit of an odd outlook on transitivity. There are some situations where if A implies B, and B implies C, thus A implies C. There are other situation where this is not the case.

A - Microsoft
B - Akamai
C - Linux

If Microsoft contracts with Akamai, and Akamai uses Linux, Microsoft is not using Linux.

Cowlick... how close do you live to Redmond?

;) j/k But I posted this story earlier too.

not sure, but didn't ms forego exchange and initailly use qmail on solaris for hotmail's outbound mail?

when MS bought hotmail it was running BSD. When they tried to switch it over to MS products it was a disaster.

hotmail wasn't created by microsoft, they were bought out, the company that created it m so it was setup on solaris etc.

that yahoo story is a real scrape at the bottom of the barrel

MS constantly uses *nix variants, and Linux among them. That's not a show of weakness, or a lack of faith in their own software. their are a few cases where Linux is really the tool for the job, and everyone knows anyone saying differently is full of shit. I mean hell the Linux kernel is developed using bitkeeper a closed source proprietary code tracking system, not CVS or whatever the hell GNU has for that. almost no one (outside of the kernel development mailing lists) ever bitches about that. Programmers are at least half engineer, and engineers are nothing if not pragmatic.

microsofts internal bug tracking/managment system is cheerfully called 'slime'

SLM Source library Manager, which became delta iirc,