Re: The worst case scenario

[samizdat]

Bought by Microsoft?

Let's see... hotmail, doubleclick. Both are working less efficiently, AFAICT, and I'm sure there are more that my Monday brain is not remembering.

[rhesa]

What, your Monday brain, bought by Microsoft? Poor soul! ;)

[swampyankee]

Last I knew (I've not been keeping close track; "last I knew" is a couple of years old), hotmail still had numerous BSD boxes. M$ was finding these highly non-trivial to completely eliminate. An interviewed sysadmin said everytime they replaced one with a Windows box, another BSD box was installed elsewhere. I think he used an analogy to cockroaches, but I may be wrong.

[samizdat]

I had heard that, too, but the last word I'd heard (again, a while back) was that Management (!) was insistent upon eliminating BSD, no matter how many (hundreds of) boxen they had to add.

<SHAMELESS PLUG>

Here, our whole division's DNS and routing trees, and quite a few of our heavy load servers, are now happily FreeBSD. Every time the NT-oriented senior folks have a "moment", they task a junior admin with the problem and he solves it with FreeBSD. Our CAD systems admin would love to replace the RHL-E3 boxen that are used for EDA chip-simulation runs with FreeBSD, but he keeps running into places where the apps are Linux-specific, such as expecting a non-standard xterm. For the tools for which they do work, they're both faster and much more load-tolerant than the RH machines.

</SHAMELESS PLUG>

We SHALL overcome! :D

[BerntB]

Oh, OK.

I shall, at long last, d/l and try it. Have been thinking about it for years and now I have free disk.

(Last BSD for me, was SunOS, pre Solaris 2... :-)