[ale] Microsoft embraces open source?

[Chris Ricker]

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

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