Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:30:07 +1100 | From | Matthew Hawkins <> | Subject | Re: GURU needed: Linux vs. FreeBSD |
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On Tue, 03 Nov 1998, menion wrote:
> I belive that hotmail runs on SUN's. Microsoft tried to change it to NT > but a whole boatload of enginners could not have kept the Titanic afloat > either.
Yep, and those Suns are running NetBSD iirc. As somebody else has mentioned, this has a lot to do with the maturity of the operating systems at the time these services were implemented and the experience/tastes of the systems administrators involved. It has nothing to do with _current_ performance benchmarks whatsoever.
Many of the less-clued *BSD advocates use examples like this of major services running on their particular flavour to "prove" that it is "quite obvious" their flavour is superior. But the real issue is that these services are running fine, the admin know how all the components of the systems are working together, and according to the problem-solving flowchart the next steps are "don't fuck with it" -> "no problems". Hotmail/Microsoft had to learn this the hard way.
I have no doubt whatsoever that a current Linux system run by competent administrators put to the same task will tear strips off NetBSD. But there's simply too much cost involved for Hotmail to switch. They've been there, done that, and got fried like a chicken.
-- Matt
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