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To: QwikSand who wrote (26297)	1/15/2000 1:22:00 AM
From: cfimx	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

>>Just went to Best Buy (BBY:news) and picked up one of the new Maytag Universal Plug'n'Play rectal thermometers that communicates with my nose hair clipper. funny, i got the same thing from a var. <g> it ran jini though, and was more expensive. <g>

To: QwikSand who wrote (26297)	1/15/2000 2:28:00 AM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Is Windows Ready to Run E-Business? Business Week businessweek.com By subscription. When Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) bought Hotmail Inc. for $395 million two years ago, the free-e-mail pioneer had 10 million members and ran on mighty Unix computers--not PC servers powered by Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. Now, with Hotmail boasting more than 50 million accounts, the key parts of the site are still running on Unix--in spite of Microsoft's desire to switch to its own software. George Gilder in his January newsletter mentions "a record setting wild guess of 200,000 bugs" in Windows 2000. My wild guess is that his wild guess is conservative. If MSFT software is so good ... why do they use FreeBSD and remove the Sun Microsystems nameplates from the hardware for HotMail? (So I'm told.) Just wondering.