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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (9286)	4/24/1998 12:42:00 PM
From: Bala Vasireddi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Thought you all would enjoy this! Somebody sent it to me. Don't know where they got it. -Bala ------ Solaris calls Hotmail shots for Microsoft Microsoft has decided to get the hots for Sun and is using Solaris to run its acclaimed Hotmail web-based e-mail service instead of NT. The software giant has attempted to exchange the Sun/Solaris infrastructure of Hotmail with NT since buying it in December 1997. However, the demands of supporting 10 million users reportedly proved too great for NT, and Solaris was reinstated. In a leaked report, sources close to Hotmail said: "... its whole mail server infrastructure is Solaris. NT couldn't handle it. On the web server, they're running MP Pentiums and Apache on FreeBSD. They're moving to Solaris for threads. The engineering team did its best to run NT - and failed. The issue's being escalated." Hotmail is running Apache's /1.2.1 web server which is not available for NT due to technical difficulties. A statement on Apache's website states: "The road to Windows NT has not been a pretty one. Several attempts have been made, both by Apache Group members and outside folks, but due to a lack of stability and a clear consensus on how to manage a true cross-platform development project, NT is not yet a standard platform supported by Apache." Microsoft is currently recruiting engineers for Hotmail, but NT specialists need not apply. Hotmail's website lists vacancies for an operations software engineer and a QA engineer - and the common requirement is for Unix experience. Judy Gibbons, director of the Microsoft Network, was unaware of the hardware behind Hotmail, but said: "We looked at all the on-line mail services and Hotmail was far and away the best. It has the most proven and scalable architecture." First appeared in Mag Net, 22-April -1998

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (9286)	4/25/1998 10:57:00 AM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Wasn't SUNW about 30 this time last year, so it's up about 33%. Not too shabby, though if you bought in the 50's you might have another opinion. My strategy with SUNW is just to make about 5% in a month or less. A few months of that and you start to get good returns. Example: Yesterday, I bought at 39 3/4 and sold MAY 40 calls for 1 5/8. So, if my SUNW gets called away on March 15th, I've made almost 5% in three weeks. If not, my basis price is 38 1/8 and I sell another call next month. With a volatile stock like SUNW, this has been a winning strategy for me.