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Wow. I remember reading about Hotmail servers running BSD back in the day, but not quite like this. FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE is also available on these cloud

by arh68 12y ago

Wow. I remember reading about Hotmail servers running BSD back in the day, but not quite like this. FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE is also available on these cloud hosting platforms: - Amazon(R) EC2(TM) FreeBSD/amd64 - Microsoft(R) Azure(TM) FreeBSD/amd64, FreeBSD/i386

ams6110 12y ago
Well hotmail was not owned by Microsoft originally. The urban legend is that after they acquired it they had to keep running it on FreeBSD a lot longer than they wanted to because Windows was not up to the task at the time. Edit: After a moment's thought... wasnt Hotmail originally running on Solaris or SunOS?
- teh_klev 12y ago
  "Hotmail initially ran under Solaris for mail services and Apache on FreeBSD for web services, before being partly converted to Microsoft products, using Windows Services for UNIX in the migration path." [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook.com#Launch_of_Hotmail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook.com#Launch_of_Hotmail