[OT] microsoft tech support

[schofiel@telusplanet.net (Curtis Schofield)]

>
> Linux works for the public just fine, 76% of Internet servers, run 
> Linux,
> Oracle and MYSQL for linux.

`umm. this number is screwed. the majority of real internets servers
run Solaris. Linux is popular amoung smaller companies, but it isn't
scalable or reliable as Solaris.. Not to mention the fact that it has
regular security holes on a constant basis due to the strange development
structure that they use.

MySQL isn't a proper RDMS and if anyone runs a real database on it
they are going to have serious problems. (doesn't suport transactions,
atomicity, row level locking, etc etc etc. ie: It has serious scalablity
problems as well as data reliablity)

> it works so well that HOtmail.com (MSn corporation owned by M/S) still 
> is
> running it on LInux, because a NT box of same capacity was not able to
> provide enough tick time to handle the stress load that runs on
> Hotmail.com... So M/S said.. HUmm... Lets leave Linux on there!
> AHAHAHAHAHA.

FreeBSD is what the hotmail.com people used/use. You are correct
in the the MS servers couldn't handled the load.. Of course they have 
been
slowly replacing the FreeBSD machines.

FreeBSD you'll find powers many a ISP.

(www.freebsd.org for more info)

(Sorry for posting to an off topic thread =) )