[ale] Microsoft embraces open source?

[toiletduk at penguinpowered.com (Christopher S. Adams)]

they need to use qmail though :)

Chris

-----Original Message-----
 From: Chris Ricker <kaboom at gatech.edu>
To: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
Date: Monday, July 19, 1999 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] Microsoft embraces open source?


>On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Keith R. Watson wrote:
>
>> Microsoft embraces open source? How else can you explain the apparent use
>> of Apache to host MSN web pages?
>
>It's called "use what works."  When MS bought Hotmail, they tried to switch
>it to Exchange and IIS (it had been running on a mix of FreeBSD and Solaris
>running Apache and Sendmail).  NT couldn't handle the load, so they gave up
>and switched back....
>
>later,
>chris
>
>--
>Chris Ricker
kaboom at gatech.edu
>
chris.ricker at genetics.utah.edu
>