Microsoft using Linux

[Mark Komarinski]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:40:40PM -0400, bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, at 9:51pm, Richard.Soule at oracle.com wrote:
> > "A Netcraft monitoring Web site has revealed Microsoft's London Internet
> > Data Centre depends heavily on Linux for delivering data ...
> 
>   Note only that, but Microsoft Akamized www.microsoft.com last week.
> Apparently, this was in response to DoS attacks (it might not be the MS
> Blaster worm, but a separate DoS attack, tho).  As of a few years ago,
> Akamai used mainly FreeBSD systems.  Today, the Akamai website hints that
> MS-Windows servers are possible, but I dunno how real that is.  In any
> event, it seems likely that a great deal of MSFT's web infrastructure is
> powered by some kind of FOSS at this point.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32385.html

The contents are Akamaized, but the servers are still ISS running on Windows.

-Mark
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