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Tandem · 08-21-2003, 06:31 PM

An interesting news story:

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

cowlick · 08-21-2003, 07:09 PM

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.

HeAtHeN · 08-21-2003, 07:12 PM

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

j/k But I posted this story earlier too.

Cocktopus · 08-21-2003, 10:45 PM

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

juanvaldes · 08-21-2003, 10:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Cocktopus
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.

charliex · 08-21-2003, 11:00 PM

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

juanvaldes · 08-21-2003, 11:16 PM

Quote:

"Microsoft admits it still hasn't upgraded its Hotmail system to Windows, almost four years after embarking on the task, and fifteen months after the first load balancing machines began to be shifted to Windows 2000 from FreeBSD. "

Source

giblfiz · 08-22-2003, 12:24 AM

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.

charliex · 08-22-2003, 12:39 AM

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

SLM Source library Manager, which became delta iirc,

08-21-2003, 06:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
Tandem Insane Location: Brisbane, Australia	Microsoft Is Using Linux To Protect Its Own Web Site An interesting news story: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...=/cmp/13100775

08-21-2003, 07:09 PM	#2 (permalink)
cowlick Insane Location: Seattle	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. __________________ "It's a long story," says I, and let him up.

08-22-2003, 12:24 AM	#8 (permalink)
giblfiz is a shoggoth Location: LA	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. __________________ Use the star one and you'll be fighting off the old ones with your bare hands -A Shoggoth on the Roof

08-21-2003, 10:45 PM	#4 (permalink)
Cocktopus Insane	not sure, but didn't ms forego exchange and initailly use qmail on solaris for hotmail's outbound mail?

08-21-2003, 11:00 PM	#6 (permalink)
charliex Junkie Location: North Hollywood	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

08-22-2003, 12:39 AM	#9 (permalink)
charliex Junkie Location: North Hollywood	microsofts internal bug tracking/managment system is cheerfully called 'slime' SLM Source library Manager, which became delta iirc,