On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Ken Gilmour wrote:
> hotmail.com used to be hosted on Redhat. and microsoft.com is
> protected with FreeBSD (although the site itself is on a windows
> server)
Hotmail used to be hosted on FreeBSD actually, Microsoft tried twice
to change it to IIS after they bought it, successfully on the second
attempt.
microsoft.com was 'hosted' by Linux for a while when microsoft
engaged Akamai to cache their content, akamai using linux:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/08/17/wwwmicrosoftcom_runs_linux_up_to_a_point_.html
However, they fixed that:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.microsoft.com
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