[ale] Microsoft embraces open source?

Wandered Inn esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
Mon Jul 19 09:57:05 EDT 1999


"Keith R. Watson" wrote:
> 
> Microsoft embraces open source? How else can you explain the apparent use
> of Apache to host MSN web pages?
> 
> MSN Powered by Apache
> 
> http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20768.html

This doesn't surprise me, since Microsoft migrated from NT for MSN a
while back to some flavor of UNIX, since NT couldn't handle the load. 
What else would they run in a UNIX box?  Certainly not IIS...

> 
> keith
> -------------
> 
> Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/AIST
> Computer Services Specialist IV        Georgia Institute of Technology
> keith.watson at gtri.gatech.edu           Atlanta, GA  30332-0816
> 404-894-0836

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