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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (48880)	8/31/2000 1:58:25 AM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Re: "The worlds largest email hosting service (70+ million inboxes) is running Win2k on hundreds of servers. Many of the fixes that made that possible are available in the win2k SP1(read: all microsoft win2k customers benefit from the effort)" First, they're NOT the world's largest email hosting service. The reason they have 70+million inboxes is because every mom-and-pop spammer in the world has several dozen inboxes. Second, the important point to get from the above quote is that even Microsoft can't run its own HotMail servers on its own software without going to its own engineers to get bug fixes. If your company isn't owned by Microsoft, do you think you'll be able to get bugs fixed so your server will work?

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (48880)	8/31/2000 2:58:38 AM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 74651

Let your lurker know that people with a clue are keeping a census on all of this with hits to hotmail which show that while MS has W2K delivering the netcraft querry, the individual machine census shows W2K isn't carrying half the hotmail load yet, and in the process of the MS marketing department's excersize here (replacing FreeBSD on hotmail), there was a good deal of hardware expense (adding machines to deliver FreeBSD level performance) in pulling off this publicity stunt. -JCJ