MSFT knows great software ...
they use Apache and UNIX.
From linuxmall.com
Apparently, Microsoft is using Apache to run one of MSN's sites - if you go to this link
homepages.msn.com
or follow the instructions on LinuxCare's site you'll find that they're using Apache 1.3.6 on some flavor of UNIX. Ed. It has to be the stability and performance that Apache offers, surely they don't charge themselves for their own licenses... (July 15, 1999)
linuxcare.com
Verifying Apache/UNIX at MSN
You can directly query the Apache server at MSN using nc(netcat) or, alternatively, you can telnet to port 80 at homepages.msn.com. See the sample session below.
@bassano [~] $ nc homepages.msn.com 80
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
Host: homepages.msn.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 18:18:54 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix)
Set-Cookie: tcid=TC-378CD495-N-N4zUjsCoASwAAA26Px4;
expires=Thursday,
13-Jul-00 18:19:01 GMT; path=/; domain=.msn.com
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
What this means:
"nc" is a program, netcat, that enables you to create network connections. Here, we create a socket to homepages.msn.com, on port 80, the port usually associated with the web. We give it two strings, "HEAD / HTTP/1.0", and "Host: homepages.msn.com", and in turn, it gives us some information about itself, most notably, the fact that the server is Apache 1.3.6, running, presumably, on some flavor of Unix.
That the server is running Apache is also easily ascertained by going to an invalid page at
homepages.msn.com. The server returns the error message:
Not Found
The requested URL /invalid_url was not found on this server.
Apache/1.3.6 Server at homepages.msn.com Port 489
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