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They bought it well before gmail even came around. Hotmail when they bought it was running on top of FreeBSD not Solaris. Microsoft even has an entire document
by X-Istence 15y ago
They bought it well before gmail even came around. Hotmail when they bought it was running on top of FreeBSD not Solaris.
Microsoft even has an entire document on how they did the migration: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb496985.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb496985.aspx
- bigiain 15y agoThanks for the link, 1997 &2000, eh? No wonder my recollection is so vague... I notice the article mentions "various unix Systems" then goes on to talk exclusively of the FreeBSD web front end. I still have vague (perhaps 12 year old) memories aout the actual mail storage and management being Sun kit... (mostly from the point of view of a bunch of friends who worked at Sun being outrageously amused at the ballsup of multiple attempts at migration...)
- X-Istence 15y agoThey used to have a migration PDF that detailed how their mail store was on FreeBSd for the backend, insofar as I can remember. It was possible that there was a mix of Sun technologies in the back.